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- Title
Exercitive Speech Acts in the Poetry of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
- Authors
FONTANA, ERNEST
- Abstract
The essay discusses selected poems of Dante Gabriel Rosetti as exercitive speech acts meant to convey urgency to the reader in ordering, urging, advising or warning. These dramatic vocalizations evoke danger or uncertainty. The essay points out that the speakers in these poems are not oracles but limited human beings. Rosetti's interest in exercitive speech acts is traced from his earliest poems.
- Subjects
ESSAYS; ROSSETTI, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882; SPEECH acts (Linguistics); DANGER perception; POETRY (Literary form); LITERARY criticism; VICTORIAN (Literary period)
- Publication
Victorian Poetry, 2009, Vol 47, Issue 2, p449
- ISSN
0042-5206
- Publication type
Essay
- DOI
10.1353/vp.0.0057