Sound and Structure in the Divine Comedy

by David Robey

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198184980
• ISBN13: 9780198184980
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.1"