ISBN10: 0198184980, ISBN13: 9780198184980, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Oxford & New York : Oxford University Press , [2000]. Reprint. Hardbound. Dustjacket. x,204 pp. 25 cm. Condition : very good copy. ISBN 9780198184980. Keywords : LITERARY CRITICISM, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
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-Oxford University Press, 2000-. First edition. x+204 pages. Cloth. Fine in fine dustjacket. The importance of sound in poetry is indisputable, yet it is not at all an easy subject to discuss, and is rarely treated systematically by literary scholars. This book uses a variety of computer-based processes to construct a systematic analytical description of the sounds of Dante's Divine Comedy in the sense of their overall distribution within the text. The description is developed through a comparative treatment of the same features in a range of related texts, with a view to defining the distinctive characteristics of Dante's practice; and by a discussion of the function and effect of sounds in the work, with special attention to unusually high incidences of particular features. The book is thus both a contribution to the scholarly debate about Dante's poem, and an illustration and discussion of the ways in which new electronic technology can be used for this kind of purpose. Taking advantage of the regularity of Italian orthography, the book begins by using an almost wholly electronic analysis to study the distribution of vocalic and consonantal phonemes and of assonances and alliterations in the text of the Comedy. This is followed by an extensive discussion of the related topic of rhyme, also susceptible of treatment by almost entirely electronic means. The next part of the book deals with rhythmical and metrical structures, and as a result has required a much greater ...

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