Inferring the dramatic in Donne: A metacritical study

This study argues that those features perceived to be strikingly "dramatic" about certain lyric poems by John Donne are generally inferred on the part of the reader or critical commentator. With recourse to principles of modern linguistics, specifically the field of pragmatics, it becomes...

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Main Author: Watkins, David Ralston
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. English 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4613