Sound and Structure in the Divine Comedy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198184980)

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.

Author: David Robey
ISBN-10: 0198184980
ISBN-13: 9780198184980
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2001
Pages: 214
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.94w x 0.71d