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The Colours the Words Cast

By Christopher Butler

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The Colours the Words Cast

By Christopher Butler

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1. Prologue: aims of the study and structure of the book.- 2. Studying colour in poetry, with particular reference to the poems of Dylan Thomas.- 3. Corpus of poems and methodology.- 4. Accounts of symbolic associations of colours with other domains.- 5. Frequency data.- Part II: Chromatic primary basic colour terms and related non-basic terms.- 6. Green.- 7. Red, blue and yellow.- Part III: Achromatic primary basic colour terms and related non-basic terms.- 8. White.- 9. Black.- Part IV: The remaining colour terms.- 10. Secondary basic colour terms: brown and grey – but why not pink, purple or orange?- 11. Non-basic metonymic colour terms derived from the names of metals: gold(en) and silver.- 12. Summarising modification of basic colour terms and distribution of colour words among entity types.- 13. The use of more than one colour word in a poem.- 14. Epilogue: a kaleidoscope of colour.
Product details
Number of Pages:
224
Release Date:
2025-08-30
Publication Date:
2025-08-30
Publisher:
Springer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3031933885
ISBN13:
9783031933882
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
406 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
17 cm
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