Symmetric and asymmetric relations, and the aesthetics of form in poetic language
Fabb, Nigel (2009) Symmetric and asymmetric relations, and the aesthetics of form in poetic language. European English Messenger, 18 (1). pp. 50-59.
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Abstract
This article asks how the properties of symmetry and asymmetry, as aesthetic properties, are realized in literary language. I will argue that language makes available many kinds of asymmetry, and that the asymmetry often holds between two elements which are at the same time in a symmetric relation. This coincidence of an asymmetric and a symmetric relation between the same linguistic elements may be one source of the aesthetics of literary language.
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Fabb, Nigel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4820-7612;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 16673 Dates: DateEvent24 April 2009PublishedSubjects: Language and Literature > English
Language and Literature > Philology. LinguisticsDepartment: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > English Depositing user: Mrs Tereza McLaughlin-Vanova Date deposited: 09 Mar 2010 14:31 Last modified: 11 Nov 2024 09:25 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/16673
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