Linguistics and Literary Style.

by Donald Cary Freeman

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

Reviews

[Dave · Rating 3 out of 5]

A collection of scholarly papers, various academic contributors, on ... linguistics and literary style. If you can even get a copy of this at all now; it dates to about 1965-66: a college textbook that I never finished until now. Given that Noam Chomsky and his views on grammar were a big thing back then, Chomsky comes in for being cited a lot in various footnotes. (But this book is not a discussion of various aspects of Chomsky, far from it...) As it was so long since I began reading the whole thing, I can't even remember the 'linguistic' topics in the first 3/4 of the book, but the last 3 papers were studies of poetic meter in English from about the time of Chaucer to about the time of the poets of the Restoration, tetrameter and pentameter mostly. There... now somebody has finally written a half-hearted review of the thing, as apparently nobody had yet. ...