{"product_id":"the-riches-of-rhyme","title":"The Riches of Rhyme","description":"This book is about the ways in which rhyme in French verse produces shapes or interferes with meaning - a topic which, despite its centrality, has hitherto received little critical attention. Part 1 examines those features which are peculiar to French rhyme - the different degrees of rhyme, rhyme gender, the frequency of rhymes on suffixes and endings - and explores the contributions they make to a poem''s structure and semantic productivity. Its concern is twofold: to test the adequacy of the current methods of classifying rhymes and to demonstrate how comprehensive interpretations of a poem can be constructed from its rhyme-data. But wider issues are also confronted, including the relationships between rhyme and textuality, between rhyme and truth, between rhyme and rhythm. Part 2 analyses specific plays, poems and collections of poems: Racine''s Mithridate, Moliere''s Les Femmes Savantes, Voltaire''s Poeme sur le Désastre de Lisbonne, Verlaine''s Fêtes galantes and Aragon''s Les Yeux d''Elsa.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57507630154101,"sku":"9780198158530","price":165.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780198158530.jpg?v=1787042638","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/the-riches-of-rhyme","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}