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What is Poetry?

Hardcover • 2015 • 1. edition

What is Poetry?

By Nigel (University of Strathclyde) Fabb

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About the book

Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory. Using examples from around the world, Fabb surveys the wide varieties of poetry and the ways they are performed, including those in songs and signed literatures....Show more

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9781107001855

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Cambridge University Press

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2015

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What is Poetry?

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Hardcover

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