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:	Date Event 24 April 2009 Published
  Keywords:	linguistics, aesthetics, metre, english studies, English, Philology. Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory
  Subjects:	Language and Literature > English Language and Literature > Philology. Linguistics
  Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English
  Depositing user:	Mrs Tereza McLaughlin-Vanova
  Date deposited:	09 Mar 2010 14:31
  Last modified:	20 Sep 2022 00:57
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/16673