Breadcrumbs Section. Click here to navigate to respective pages.
Chapter
Chapter
More on foregrounding, deviation and parallelism
DOI link for More on foregrounding, deviation and parallelism
More on foregrounding, deviation and parallelism book
More on foregrounding, deviation and parallelism
DOI link for More on foregrounding, deviation and parallelism
More on foregrounding, deviation and parallelism book
ABSTRACT
InChapter1wenoticedthatinexploringpoetryitissensible tobeginbyexaminingtheforegroundedaspectsoftexts,as thesealmostinvariablyturnouttobeimportantin interpretation.Indeedagoodstartingpointfortheanalysisof anypoemistoexaminetheforegroundedpartsandprovide aninterpretationwhichlinksthosepartstogether.Thisis whatIdidintheanalysisof'Wants'byPhilipLarkin. Foregroundedfeaturesarethepartsofthetextwhichthe author,consciouslyorunconsciously,issignallingascrucialto ourunderstandingofwhathehaswritten.Awellknown stylistician,Leech(1970),hascalledthisstrategyoflinking togetherforegroundedfeaturescohesionofforegrounding.
