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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Prose Rhythm"”.
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Prose Rhythm and Queer Desire
… dissertation examines the mutual involvement of prose and verse in the work of four gay writers of the Victorian period, to assert a connection between queer object choice and generic hybridity. It contextualises the works in question as being on the cusp of both a liberalisation of traditional …
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The Evolution of American Expository Prose Style as Exemplified by the Easy Chair Columnists of HARPER'S MAGAZINE
… aims to describe the way American expository prose style evolved during the period 1851 to 1981 as exemplified by the Easy Chair columnists of <em>Harper's Magazine.</em> Major premises of the study are that style and meaning are the same, but that a writer chooses among various shades of …
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Nulla umquam obmutescet vetustas: Hyperbaton in Cicero's oratory
… large. I also discuss the potential influence of prose rhythm and other artistic factors. Chapter 7, lastly, treats cases of hyperbaton where multiple constituents appear within the discontinuous noun phrase: I call these instances ‘long-distance hyperbaton’. These complex constructions display …
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'The Auditive Intelligence': Intonation in Henry James
This thesis seeks to retrieve the ‘auditive intelligence’ in the work of Henry James, but it does so by first recognising some of the theoretical and historical obstacles that lie in the way of such a recovery. Structural linguistics has been responsible for encouraging the assumption that there …