Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry (e-bog) af Griffiths, Eric
Griffiths, Eric (forfatter)

Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry e-bog

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The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry starts from a simple fact: our written language does not represent the way we speak. Intonation, accent, tempo, and pitch of utterance can be inferred from a written text but they are not clearly demonstrated there. The book shows the implications of this fact for linguists and philosophers of language and offers fundamental criticisms of some recent work i...
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Forfattere Griffiths, Eric (forfatter)
Forlag OUP Oxford
Udgivet 12 juli 2018
Længde 367 sider
Genrer Philosophy of language
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780192571632
The Printed Voice of Victorian Poetry starts from a simple fact: our written language does not represent the way we speak. Intonation, accent, tempo, and pitch of utterance can be inferred from a written text but they are not clearly demonstrated there. The book shows the implications of this fact for linguists and philosophers of language and offers fundamental criticisms of some recent work in these fields. It aims principally to describe the ways in whichnineteenth-century English poets-Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins-responded creatively to the ambiguities involved in writing down their own voices, the melodies of their speech. Original readings of the poets' work are given, both at a minutely detailed level and with regard to major preoccupations of theperiod-immortality, morbidity, marriage, social divisions, and religious conversions-and in this way Eric Griffiths offers a new map of Victorian poetry.