| Description |
1 online resource (317 pages) illustrations |
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Studies in English Literature ; Volume 23 |
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Studies in English literature (Hague, Netherlands) ; Volume 23.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments; List of tables; List of figures; Introduction; I. The Reputation of Swift's Prose Style; II. The Problem of Style; III. Principles, Assumptions and Methods; IV. Seriation; V. Connection; VI. Words without Meaning; The Consistency of Swift's Style; Quantitative Features of Swift's Style: Grouped Word-Classes; The Stable Style Statistic (SSS); The Stability Factor; Nominal, Verbal and Adjectival Styles; Three-Word Patterns; Introductory Connectives; The Swift Profile; VII. A Case in Point: A Letter to a Young Poet; Conclusion; Appendices |
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I. Make-up of Samples in Chapters IV and VII. Some Factors of Experimental Design; A. Definition of Word-Classes; B. Comparison of Two Separate Analyses of Modest Proposal; C. Make-up of Samples and Sub-Samples in Chapters VI and VII; D. The Federalist Experiment; E. Parts of Speech Distribution in Three Modem British Writers compared with one Sample of Swift and the Swift Average; F. Closing Sentence-Elements by Word-Class, as a Percentage of Total Sentence; G. The Junius Problem; H. Letter C; Bibliography; Index; Key |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-308) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 -- Literary style
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| SUBJECT |
Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 fast |
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Swift, Jonathan. swd |
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English language -- Style -- Statistical methods
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Literary style -- History -- 18th century -- Statistical methods
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Literary style -- Statistical methods
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Literary style
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Sprache
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
3111400352 |
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9783111400358 |
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3111037495 |
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9783111037493 |
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