Affordances of form in stanzaic narrative poetry
This article develops the notion that poetry is crucially distinguished from other forms of verbal art by its foregrounding of segmentivity, the spacing of language. If a measure is regarded as the smallest unit of resistance to meaning, measure determines where gaps open up in a poetic text. Poetry...
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Language: | Afrikaans |
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2010-07-01
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Series: | Literator |
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Online Access: | https://literator.org.za/index.php/literator/article/view/57 |