Nigel Fabb

Venla Sykäri

This collection of thirteen chapters answers new questions about rhyme, with views from folklore, ethnopoetics, the history of literature, literary criticism and music criticism, psychology and linguistics. The book examines rhyme as practiced or as understood in English, Old English and Old Norse, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish and Karelian, Estonian, Medieval Latin, Arabic, and the Central Australian language Kaytetye. Some authors examine written poetry, including modernist poetry, and others focus on various kinds of sung poetry, including rap, which now has a pioneering role in taking rhyme into new traditions. Some authors consider the relation of rhyme to other types of form, notably alliteration. An introductory chapter discusses approaches to rhyme, and ends with a list of languages whose literatures or song traditions are known to have rhyme.

Rhyme and Rhyming in Verbal Art, Language, and Song

Alan Durant

A combination of workbook and handbook. Instead of just outlining the discipline of literary studies it helps the student to answer questions about its history and current practice, containing examples from the last 1000 years of writing in English.'This is a textbook for the times, which addresses itself brilliantly to the twin phenomena of expanding horizons and diminishing resources of English studies.' - David Lodge

Literary Studies in Action

Poetry, defined as language divided into lines, is found in most known human cultures. This masterful survey of poetry and its constituent components demonstrates the functions performed by metre, rhyme, alliteration and parallelism, arguing that each line of a poem fits as a whole unit into the limited capacity of human working memory. Using examples from around the world, Fabb surveys the wide varieties of poetry and the ways they are performed, including those in songs and signed literatures. Focusing on language, form and memory, he helps us understand why poetry is a particularly valued way of using language. A fresh exploration of poetry, the book will be welcomed by students and researchers of literature, linguistics and psychology, as well as anyone interested in poetry.

Language and Memory in the Poems of the World

What is Poetry?

Mairi John Blackings

This grammar provides one of the most detailed accounts available of the syntax of a Nilo-Saharan language. It fully describes some of the unusual characteristics of Ma'di, including the different word orders associated with different tenses, the particle-based modal and focus systems, the full range of adverbials, and the structure and meaning of the noun phrase. The grammar also describes the phonetics, phonology, morphology, and aspects of the lexicon of the language.

A Grammar of Ma'di

Illustrated by 130 languages and literatures, this book explores poetry's unique psychological qualities.

The Linguistic Analysis of Form in Verse and Narrative

Language and Literary Structure

`This is a textbook for the times, which addresses itself brilliantly to the twin phenomena of expanding horizons and diminishing resources of English studies.' - David Lodge

Sara Mills

Martin Montgomery

Tom Furniss

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Advanced Reading Skills for Students of English Literature

Ways of Reading

Sarah Mills

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Nigel Fabb

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