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Volume :3 Issue : 10 1983
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A Linguistic Analysis of Poetic Inversion (An Approach to Applied Stylistic Methodology)
Auther : Ahmed El-Bakri
This paper a humble contribution to stylistic studies, aims at classifying and illustrating the different types of syntactic inversion in poetry, employing a generative transformational approach.
It consists of two sections followed by an appendix. Section one, entitled inversion as a linguistic process, comprises five sub-sections, the first of which serves as an introduction to the subject, the second illustrates the objectives of the research the third states the conditions related to the choice and presentation of material, the fourth introduces the linguistic approach and the system of classification, and the fifth reviews the inventory of notation and symbolization and the phrase-structure rules.
Section two, entitled inversion patterns, compress ten sub-sections, corresponding to the ten types of inversion investigated here.
In the Appendix are listed the complete poetical texts that served as material for our analysis.