Words Into Rhythm: English Speech Rhythm in Verse and Prose

by D.W. Harding and D.W. Harding

Book Overview

Critics take for granted the importance of rhythm in poetry and prose, above all its capacity for suggesting states of mind, especially emotional states. But they are seldom clear what range of effects rhythm can reasonably be credited with, nor even, at times, what exactly the term refers to. Professor Harding here views these and allied problems from a psychological standpoint. Rhythm as a means of suggesting states of mind is discussed in the light...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052113434X
• ISBN13: 9780521134347
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"