A Linguistic History of English Poetry

by Richard Bradford

Book Overview

This introductory book takes the reader through literary history from the Renaissance to Postmodernism, and considers individual texts as paradigms which can both reflect and unsettle their broader linguistic and cultural contexts. Richard Bradford provides detailed readings of individual texts which emphasize their relation to literary history and broader socio-cultural contexts, and which take into account developments in structuralism and postmodernism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415070589
• ISBN13: 9780415070584
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 8.5"