"So stretched out huge in length": reading the extended simile

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Catherine Addison (caddison@pan.uzulu.ac.za) is an associate professor at the University of Zululand, South Africa. Since graduating with a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1987, she has taught at a variety of South African universities and has published on Byron, Shelley, Crane, Mitford, prosody, and simile.

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