Poetry and Language: The Linguistics of Verse

by Michael Ferber

Book Overview

Michael Ferber's accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language tackles a wide range of subjects from a linguistic point of view. Written with the non-expert in mind, the book explores current linguistic concepts and theories and applies them to a variety of major poetic features. Equally appealing to linguists who feel that poetry has been unjustly neglected, the broad field of investigation touches on meter, rhyme (and other sound...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108453066
• ISBN13: 9781108453066
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.9"