Poetic Language : Theory and Practice from the Renaissance to the Present EPUB
by Tom Jones
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The first study of poetic language from a historical and philosophical perspective
In a series of 12 chapters, exemplary poems - by Walter Ralegh, John Milton,William Cowper, William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Frank O'Hara, Robert Creeley, W. S. Graham, Tom Raworth, Denise Riley and Thomas A. Clark - are read alongside theoretical discussions of poetic language.
The discussions provide a jargon-free account of a wide range of historical and contemporary schools of thought about poetic language, and an organised, coherent critique of those schools (including analytical philosophy, cognitive poetics, structuralism and post-structuralism). Via close readings of poems from 1600 to the present readers are taken through a wide range of styles including modernist, experimental and innovative poetries. Paired chapters within a chronological structure allow lecturers and students to approach the material in a variety of ways (by individual chapters, paired historical periods) that are appropriate to different courses.
Key Features:
- Surveys a variety of linguistic and philosophical approaches to poetic language: analytical, cognitive, post-structuralist, pragmatic
- Provides readings of complete poems and places those readings within the wider context of each poet's work
- Combines theory and practice
- Includes a Glossary, Notes on Poets and Suggested Further Reading
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:04/07/2012
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- ISBN:9780748656202
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Information
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:EPUB
- Pages:240 pages
- Publisher:Edinburgh University Press
- Publication Date:04/07/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9780748656202
