Rhyme in Prose Narrative
A Precaution
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 8930976 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Gareth Morgan (0000-0002-9495-1274, The University of Texas at Austin, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1986 |
| Volumen | 97 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 219-221 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1986-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Folklore (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0015-587X • E-ISSN: 1469-8315 |
| Editorial | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0015587x.1986.9716383 |
| OpenAlex | W2073295598 |
| Idioma | EN |
A LONG-ENGRAINED reluctance to mix numbers with literature will be shared, I am sure, by most readers. Yet I must yield. The intention of this paper is to show how a very little, very simple arithmetic can rebut an intuitive perception of style: in particular, how the identification of rhyme in prose narrative may be a dangerous adventure if it is not tempered with a minimum of mathematics. In a recent study of the oral cante-fable among the Tonga (a Bantu-speaking people of Southern Zambia) the author, after dealing with the songs that are inset in the story, goes on to describe the prose narrative
Art · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Poetry · Rhyme · Educational Tools and Methods · History · Philosophy
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |