Roi Tartakovsky
List of John Benjamins publications for which Roi Tartakovsky plays a role.
Article
2018 Flat as a wall or flat as a butcher’s hand: The poetic simile and second-order semantic foregrounding Scientific Study of Literature 8:2, pp. 293–312 | Article
Foregrounding theory deals with the relation between deviant textual device (e.g., alliteration) and the effect on readers (e.g., high aesthetic evaluation). While previous research has tended to look at an array of devices together in longer stretches of text, we focus on an isolated, semantic… read more