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  1. What is poetry?
    language and memory in the poems of the world
    Author: Fabb, Nigel
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge

    "Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that... more

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    "Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory. Using examples from around the world, Fabb surveys the wide varieties of poetry and the ways they are performed, including those in songs and signed literatures. Focusing on language, form and memory, he argues, helps us understand why poetry is a particularly valued way of using language. A fresh exploration of poetry, the book will be welcomed by students and researchers of literature, linguistics and psychology, as well as anyone interested in poetry"--

     
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    ISBN: 9781107001855
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    Subjects: Poetry; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; Erinnerung; Lyrik; Sprache
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes
  2. Meter in poetry
    a new theory
    Author: Fabb, Nigel; Halle, Morris
    Published: 2008
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    ISBN: 9780521885645; 9780521713252
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    Subjects: Versification; Gedichten; Metriek; Lyrik; Versification; Metrik; Versfuß
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  3. Language and literary structure
    the linguistic analysis of form in verse and narrative
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    Published: 2002
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  4. What is poetry?
    language and memory in the poems of the world
    Author: Fabb, Nigel
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that... more

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    Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory. Using examples from around the world, Fabb surveys the wide varieties of poetry and the ways they are performed, including those in songs and signed literatures. Focusing on language, form and memory, he helps us understand why poetry is a particularly valued way of using language. A fresh exploration of poetry, the book will be welcomed by students and researchers of literature, linguistics and psychology, as well as anyone interested in poetry

     
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    Subjects: Poetry; Sprache; Erinnerung; Lyrik
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  5. What is poetry?
    language and memory in the poems of the world
    Author: Fabb, Nigel
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge

    "Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that... more

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    "Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory. Using examples from around the world, Fabb surveys the wide varieties of poetry and the ways they are performed, including those in songs and signed literatures. Focusing on language, form and memory, he argues, helps us understand why poetry is a particularly valued way of using language. A fresh exploration of poetry, the book will be welcomed by students and researchers of literature, linguistics and psychology, as well as anyone interested in poetry"--

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781107001855
    RVK Categories: EC 4350
    Subjects: Linguistik; Poetry; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General; Lyrik; Sprache; Erinnerung
    Scope: X, 217 S.
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    Includes bibliographical references and indexes
  6. Language and literary structure
    the linguistic analysis of form in verse and narrative
    Author: Fabb, Nigel
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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    ISBN: 0511020317; 0511487029; 9780511020315; 9780511487026; 9780521796989
    RVK Categories: EC 3000 ; ET 760 ; ET 785 ; HG 160 ; HG 510
    Subjects: Anglais (Langue) / Versification; Narration; Genres littéraires; Poétique; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology; English language / Versification; Literary form; Narration (Rhetoric); Poetics; Vorm; Verteltheorie; Metriek; Gedichten; Engels; Amerikaans; Taalkunde; Versdichtung; Literarische Form; Sprachanalyse; Englisch; Linguistik; Lyrik; English language; Narration (Rhetoric); Literary form; Poetics; Versdichtung; Sprachanalyse; Literarische Form; Englisch
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    1. Literary form -- 2. Generated metrical form -- 3. Communicated form -- 4. The communication of metre -- 5. Lines -- 6. Line-groups in metrical verse and in narrative -- 7. Complexity

    "How does a literary text get to have literary form, and what is the relation between literary form and linguistic form? This theoretical study of linguistic structure in literature focuses on verse and narrative from a linguistic perspective. Nigel Fabb provides a simple and realistic linguistic explanation of poetic form in English from 1500-1900, drawing on the English and American verse and oral narrative traditions, as well as contemporary criticism. In recent years literary theory has paid relatively little attention to form; this book argues that form is interesting

    Fabb offers a new linguistic approach to how metre and rhythm work in poetry based on pragmatic theory, providing a pragmatic explanation of formal ambiguity and indeterminacy and their aesthetic effects. He also uses linguistics to examine the experience of poetry. Language and Literary Structure will be welcomed by students and researchers in linguistics, literary theory and stylistics."--Jacket
  7. What is poetry?
    language and memory in the poems of the world
    Author: Fabb, Nigel
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    "Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that... more

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    "Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory. Using examples from around the world, Fabb surveys the wide varieties of poetry and the ways they are performed, including those in songs and signed literatures. Focusing on language, form and memory, he argues, helps us understand why poetry is a particularly valued way of using language. A fresh exploration of poetry, the book will be welcomed by students and researchers of literature, linguistics and psychology, as well as anyone interested in poetry"-- Cover; Half-title ; Title page ; Copyright information ; Dedication ; Table of contents ; Acknowledgements ; Note on the text ; List of symbols ; 1 Poetry ; The realms of gold ; Five poems and their forms ; What is poetry? ; How else might poetry be defined? ; The value of poetry Combinations of forms Summary ; 3 Language ; Syntactic structure and the line ; Prosodic structure ; The line and prosodic constituency ; Words and non-words that mark the edge of a line ; Other aspects of speech in poetry ; Breathing ; Co-performance ; Writing Havasupai Cretan ; Dyirbal ; Examples of metres based primarily on stress alone ; English `stress counting ́metre ; Hayes and MacEachern on English folk song quatrains ; Old English ; Other metres that count stressed syllables ; Examples of metres based on syllable counting alone Sign language poetry Fit and the development hypothesis ; The traditional and the avant-garde ; The difficulty of poetry ; Summary ; 4 Metre ; Metre ; Examples of metres based on stress and syllable counting ; English iambic pentameter ; An English pattern-poem ; Pashto The structure and argument of this book 2 Form ; Kinds of poetic form ; Kinds of form and working memory ; Poetic sections ; Generated poetic form ; Communicated poetic form ; The line as generated form or communicated form ; The modularity of poetic form ; Properties of forms

     
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    ISBN: 0511736576; 1316384578; 1316359972; 9781316384572; 9780511736575; 9781316359976
    Subjects: Poetry; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Composition & Creative Writing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Rhetoric; REFERENCE ; Writing Skills; Poetry; Lyrik
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  8. What is poetry?
    language and memory in the poems of the world
    Author: Fabb, Nigel
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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    Subjects: Lyrik
    Scope: x, 217 Seiten
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    "Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory. Using examples from around the world, Fabb surveys the wide varieties of poetry and the ways they are performed, including those in songs and signed literatures. Focusing on language, form and memory, he argues, helps us understand why poetry is a particularly valued way of using language. A fresh exploration of poetry, the book will be welcomed by students and researchers of literature, linguistics and psychology, as well as anyone interested in poetry"--
  9. Meter in poetry
    a new theory
    Author: Fabb, Nigel; Halle, Morris; Piera, Carlos
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

    Many of the great works of world literature are composed in metrical verse, that is, in lines which are measured and patterned. Meter in Poetry: A New Theory is the first book to present a single simple account of all known types of metrical verse,... more

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    Many of the great works of world literature are composed in metrical verse, that is, in lines which are measured and patterned. Meter in Poetry: A New Theory is the first book to present a single simple account of all known types of metrical verse, which is illustrated with detailed analyses of poems in many languages, including English, Spanish, Italian, French, classical Greek and Latin, Sanskrit, classical Arabic, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Latvian. This outstanding contribution to the study of meter is aimed both at students and scholars of literature and languages, as well as anyone interested in knowing how metrical verse is made.

     
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    ISBN: 9780511755040
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    Subjects: Metrik; Lyrik
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  10. What is poetry?
    language and memory in the poems of the world
    Author: Fabb, Nigel
    Published: 2015
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    Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that... more

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    Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory. Using examples from around the world, Fabb surveys the wide varieties of poetry and the ways they are performed, including those in songs and signed literatures. Focusing on language, form and memory, he helps us understand why poetry is a particularly valued way of using language. A fresh exploration of poetry, the book will be welcomed by students and researchers of literature, linguistics and psychology, as well as anyone interested in poetry.

     
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  11. Meter in poetry
    a new theory
    Author: Fabb, Nigel
    Published: 2008
    Publisher:  Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge [u.a.]

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    Contributor: Halle, Morris
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    ISBN: 9780521713252; 9780521885645
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    Subjects: Metrik; Lyrik
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    Literaturverz. S. 285 - 293
  12. Language and literary structure
    the linguistic analysis of form in verse and narrative
    Author: Fabb, Nigel
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  13. Meter in poetry
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    Author: Fabb, Nigel; Halle, Morris
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    Source: Philologische Bibliothek, FU Berlin; Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
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    ISBN: 9780521885645; 9780521713252
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    Subjects: Versification; Gedichten; Metriek; Lyrik; Versification; Metrik; Versfuß
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  14. The non-linguistic in poetic language: a generative approach
    Author: Fabb, Nigel
    Published: 2010

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    Source: Online Contents Comparative Literature
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    Parent title: In: Journal of literary theory; Berlin : de Gruyter, 2007-; Band 4, Heft 1 (2010), Seite 1-17; 23 cm

    Subjects: Lyrik; Sprache; Linguistik
  15. Meter in poetry
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    Author: Fabb, Nigel
    Published: 2008
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    Source: Specialised Catalogue of Comparative Literature
    Contributor: Halle, Morris
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    ISBN: 9780521713252; 9780521885645
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  16. What is poetry?
    language and memory in the poems of the world
    Author: Fabb, Nigel
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

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    Source: Specialised Catalogue of Comparative Literature
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    "Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory. Using examples from around the world, Fabb surveys the wide varieties of poetry and the ways they are performed, including those in songs and signed literatures. Focusing on language, form and memory, he argues, helps us understand why poetry is a particularly valued way of using language. A fresh exploration of poetry, the book will be welcomed by students and researchers of literature, linguistics and psychology, as well as anyone interested in poetry"--