Responsion in the Rigveda.: An article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society

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From the author: One of the most pervasive stylistic features of the Rigveda is repetition at all levels of linguistic structure: phonological, morphological, lexical, and syntactic. Of these, the most abstract is syntactic pattern repetition, known in classical rhetorical theory as responsion. This paper surveys the different types of responsion occurring in the Rigveda, organizing them by the number of words and cola (the repeated word-group structures) which they contain. The results of this inquiry show that the bards were capable of constructing elegant poetry out of antithetical, analogical, and tautological thought patterns completely adapted to the metrical vehicle which so distinctively characterizes the Rigvedic corpus.

Citation Details
Title: Responsion in the Rigveda.
Author: Jared S. Klein
Publication:The Journal of the American Oriental Society (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2002
Publisher: American Oriental Society
Volume: 122 Issue: 2 Page: 311(7)

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