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Lukacs' fluid writing style is this book's greatest merit. He points out a great deal of classical and modern history of outstanding merit and durability. This booklet, however, is published by the ISI's publishing house. Reading it is like being flung back into the academic culture of East Coast Universities in the 1950s. The sensation is bizarre, and horribly exclusionary. Almost any other introduction to the discipline for undergraduates would be better by showing that non-European, non-Christian stories also have merit. History is not only the study of personal and national heritage, but the trials and value of all human cultures, even those not personally relevant. The book lacks such generosity, often termed imaginative sympathy. Too bad.

• There are three main centres of interest that received special attention from all schools in the Hellenistic age and its aftermath.
• (1) There is the question of the origin of language or languages. Though the notion of a ‘wise inventor’ of language was generally treated with disfavour, the problem of the etymology of linguistic expressions and their reference to reality posed a challenge to all philosophical schools.
• (2) Special attention was also given to the question of the interdependence between language and thought in general, particularly in view of the importance attributed to rhetoric and other forms of self-expression.
• (3) Last, but not least, is the concern with the question in what sense ‘language’ can be treated as a technical subject with rules of its own, so that grammar is not merely a matter of empirical research and linguistic observation.

A STUDY OF POETRY

CONTENTS
PART I
POETRY IN GENERAL
I. A GLANCE AT THE BACKGROUND
II. THE PROVINCE OF POETRY
III. THE POET'S IMAGINATION
IV. THE POET'S WORDS
V. RHYTHM AND METRE
VI. RHYME, STANZA AND FREE VERSE
PART II
THE LYRIC IN PARTICULAR
VII. THE FIELD OF LYRIC POETRY
VIII. RELATIONSHIPS AND TYPES OF THE LYRIC
IX. RACE, EPOCH AND INDIVIDUAL
X. THE PRESENT STATUS OF THE LYRIC
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
APPENDIX
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX

Contributions to the Science of Text and Language: Word Length Studies and Related Issues(Text, Speech and Language Technology)

This volume contains a collection of contributions to the science of language, focusing on the study of word length in particular. Within a synergetic framework, the word turns out to be a central linguistic unit, as is clearly outlined in the Editor’s preface. The book’s first chapter is an extensive introduction to the history and state of the art of word length studies.

The studies included unify contributions from three important linguistic fields, namely, linguistics and text analysis, mathematics and statistics, and corpus and data base design, which together give a comprehensive approach to the quantitative study of text and language and word length studies.

The broad spectrum of word length studies covered within this volume will be of interest to experts working in the fields of general linguistics, text scholarship and related fields, and, understanding language as one example of complex semiotic systems, the volume should be of interest for scholars from other fields as well.