The Aesthetic Use of Language and Literary Experience: An Introductory Pedagogical Stylistics

This dissertation outlines a pedagogical stylistics, an approach to teaching poetry based on the aesthetic use of language. Two assumptions are made: poetry is one of the arts and reading poetry is an aesthetic experience. This entails two points. First, one of the distinguishing features of poetry is the manipulation of linguistic structures for literary (aesthetic) effects. Language, for poets, is an artistic medium. Second, the effects created from the patterning of language result from received relationships between language and content. They are reader based. Literary (aesthetic) responsiveness depends upon the ability to intuit (read) the analogical relationships between the selection and arrangements of elements of language and what poets try to communicate.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

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Dissertation

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Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Laff, Ned Scott

• Education, Language and Literature

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(UMI)AAI8409796

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oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/68890