By Teun A. van Dijk
ISBN-10: 0915027542
ISBN-13: 9780915027545
Discourse and Literature boldly integrates the research of literature and non-literary genres in an cutting edge embracing learn of discourse. Narrative, poetry, drama, myths, songs, letters, Biblical discourse and graffiti in addition to stylistics and rhetorics are the subjects treaded by way of twelve recognized experts chosen and brought via Teun A. van Dijk.
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With living hues and odours plain and hill. In such cases, enjambment prevents the reader from reaching a point of repose: where the verse reaches a staying point, the syntax hurries us on (see Sinclair: 1966). In this, enjambment reinforces the effect of metrical variation in suggesting the precipitate onward movement of the wind. What is deviant, on the level of primary deviation, may become a norm for the purposes of secondary deviation. In this way, different levels of devia tion may be recognized in poetry.
What is deviant, on the level of primary deviation, may become a norm for the purposes of secondary deviation. In this way, different levels of devia tion may be recognized in poetry. Just as secondary deviation presupposes primary deviation, so it is possible for a tertiary deviation to build upon the norm of secondary deviation. TERTIARY DEVIATION is deviation from norms internal to a text, and is for this reason also termed INTERNAL DEVIATION (see Levin, 1965). Like secondary deviation, it is a kind of defeated expectancy: a frustration of expectations which have been established in the poem itself.
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