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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      21 October 2009
      11 September 1986
      ISBN:
      9780511519574
      9780521325844
      9780521021326
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511519574
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.37kg, 228 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.298kg, 228 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Area Studies, Literary Theory, European Literature, European Studies
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in French (14)
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Area Studies, Literary Theory, European Literature, European Studies
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in French (14)
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    Dr Scott argues that only by attending to the precise locations of words in line or stanza, and to the specific value of syllables, or by understanding the often conflicting demands of rhythm and metre, can the reader of poetry acquire a real grasp of the intimate life of words in verse with all their fluctuations of meaning, mood and tone. The analyses through which the book pursues its argument address two principal concerns: the way in which syllabic position projects words and colours their complicated and challenged by the relationship of rhythm to metre.

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