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Robert Browning's Language.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Heritage SeriesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1999Copyright date: ©1999Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442679412
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Robert Browning's LanguageDDC classification:
  • 821/.8
LOC classification:
  • PR4244 .H357 1999
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts -- Introduction: 'Sense, sight and song' -- 1 'The world of words': Johnson, Locke, and Congregationalism -- 2 Parleying, Troping, and Fragmenting: Pauline, Paracelsus, and Sordello -- 3 'Why need I speak, if you can read my thought?': The Unacted Drama, 'My Last Duchess,' and ' "Childe Roland"' -- 4 'I kept time to the wondrous chime': Rhyme's Reason, 'Love among the Ruins,' The Inn Album, and 'Of Pacchiarotto' -- 5 'Adjust Real vision to right language': The Idealist Goal of Language, 'Parleying with Christopher Smart,' 'Abt Vogler,' and 'Saul' -- 6 'For how else know we save by worth of word?': The Ring and the Book -- 7 'One thing has many sides': Browning's 'transcripts,' Balaustion's Adventure and Aristophanes' Apology -- 8 'Do you say this, or I?': Browning's 'parleyings,' La Saisiaz, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, and Fifine at the Fair -- Overview and Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: Attempts to define Browning's understanding of the nature and use of words and syntax by considering a full range of his texts, the ideas important to him, his historical context, and the other artistic passions that played a part in his life.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts -- Introduction: 'Sense, sight and song' -- 1 'The world of words': Johnson, Locke, and Congregationalism -- 2 Parleying, Troping, and Fragmenting: Pauline, Paracelsus, and Sordello -- 3 'Why need I speak, if you can read my thought?': The Unacted Drama, 'My Last Duchess,' and ' "Childe Roland"' -- 4 'I kept time to the wondrous chime': Rhyme's Reason, 'Love among the Ruins,' The Inn Album, and 'Of Pacchiarotto' -- 5 'Adjust Real vision to right language': The Idealist Goal of Language, 'Parleying with Christopher Smart,' 'Abt Vogler,' and 'Saul' -- 6 'For how else know we save by worth of word?': The Ring and the Book -- 7 'One thing has many sides': Browning's 'transcripts,' Balaustion's Adventure and Aristophanes' Apology -- 8 'Do you say this, or I?': Browning's 'parleyings,' La Saisiaz, Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, and Fifine at the Fair -- Overview and Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y.

Attempts to define Browning's understanding of the nature and use of words and syntax by considering a full range of his texts, the ideas important to him, his historical context, and the other artistic passions that played a part in his life.

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