Verse

Fabb, Nigel; Sotirova, Violeta, ed. (2015) Verse. In: The Bloomsbury Companion to Stylistics. Bloomsbury Companions . Bloomsbury, London, pp. 523-536. ISBN 978-1-4411-6005-8

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Abstract

In this chapter I look at verse by drawing on hypotheses about the psychology of language processing, and how verse might be processed in a distinctive way (for example, how the verse line might have a distinctive status in working memory). I look at how the added forms such as metre and rhyme create markedness, and how this might force increased interpretive efforts, and how form itself can be the content of interpretations. I will suggest that verse can be seen as a device for manipulating processing effort, making it easier in some ways, more difficult in others, with interpretive and emotional effects.

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Fabb, Nigel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4820-7612

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  Item type:	Book Section
  ID code:	54990
  Dates:	Date Event 19 November 2015 Published
  Keywords:	linguistics, verse, stylistics, Language and Literature, Philology. Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory
  Subjects:	Language and Literature Language and Literature > Philology. Linguistics
  Department:	Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > English
  Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
  Date deposited:	19 Jan 2016 16:59
  Last modified:	06 May 2023 02:49
  Related URLs:	http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/the-bloomsb...
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/54990