An edition of Literary English since Shakespeare (1970)

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An edition of Literary English since Shakespeare (1970)

Literary English since Shakespeare.

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English
Pages
407

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Literary English since Shakespeare.
1970, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

The current scene in linguistics, by N. Chomsky.
Realism and the three styles, by E. Auerbach.
The meaning of "literal," by O. Barfield.
On sentence-length, by G. U. Yule.
Monosyllabic lines and words, by A. C. Bradley.
Shakespeare and the language of poetry, by O. Jespersen.
The Baroque style in prose, by M. W. Croll.
Jonson's dramatic prose, by J. A. Barish.
The language of the metaphysicals, by G. Watson.
Milton and the vocabulary of verse and prose, by H. S. Davies.
Science and English prose style, by R. F. Jones.
The style of Dryden's prose, by W. P. Ker.
Pope and the syntax of satire, by J. P. W. Rogers.
Swift and syntactical connection, by L. T. Milic.
Irony in Eighteenth-Century fiction, by W. C. Booth.
The consistency of Johnson's style, by W. K. Wimsatt.
Syntax in Wordsworth's Prelude, by D. Davie.
Scott's linguistic vagaries, by E. M. W. Tillyard.
The language of the Victorians, by F. W. Bateson.
On Dickens, by W. A. Ward.
Dialect in the novels of Hardy and George Eliot, by P. Ingham.
The first paragraph of James's Ambassadors, by I. Watt.
The holy language of modernism, by D. Donoghue.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
London, New York
Series
A Galaxy book, GB 314

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
820.9
Library of Congress
PR83 .W38 1970

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 407 p.
Number of pages
407

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5072988M
Internet Archive
literaryenglishs0000wats
LCCN
74082990
OCLC/WorldCat
78741
Library Thing
521186

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