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The Word In Poetry and Its Contexts

The Word In Poetry and Its Contexts

Scutts, Julian

Paperback

General Education

ISBN10: 1326470590
ISBN13: 9781326470593
Publisher: Lulu Pr
Published: Nov 7 2015
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Normally we consider only one context to establish the sense of a word to which a dictionary applies more than one definition. The reader of poetry can consider many more contexts, such as those supplied by his or her familiarity with other works by the same author and with literary tradition. The theoretical basis of this study resides in an analysis of Ferdinand de Saussure's distinction between langue and parole and approaches to textual criticism predicated on this distinction, which is most clearly evident in the theoretical studies of the Russian Formalists. On the firm basis of an understanding of the difference between poetry and nonliterary prose this study unravels the issues which surround the prominence of words derived from the verbs wandern and to wander in German nd English respectively in such celebrated poems as Wandrers Nachtlied, I wandered lonely as a cloud and William Blake's London.:

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