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From the author: By redefining and reclaiming the role of authorial intention in literary interpretation, this paper seeks to recommend the relevance of poetry' s prosodic features as pragmatically expressive. Far from being merely artisan or ornamental or algebraic, the sound patterning of poetry is an inevitable and primary source of meaning that inflects rather than reflects the semantic "content." This proposition is set against the jouissance of the deconstructionists, the earnestness of the ideologues, and the scientism of the linguists, each of which has implicitly marginalized if not explicitly stigmatized the semiological function of verse form.

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Title: The pragmatics of prosody.(Critical essay)
Author: Michael D. Hurley
Publication:Style (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 41 Issue: 1 Page: 53(22)

Article Type: Critical essay

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