Practical Stylistics: An Approach to Poetry - Brossura

Widdowson, H. G.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0194371840 ISBN 13: 9780194371841

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 1992

Riassunto

This book takes a particular perspective on the nature of poetry and follows this through to proposals for teaching. It focuses attention on how the use of language in short poems can set up conditions for individual interpretation and the representation of reality in ways other than those which are established by normal social convention. This view of poetry, it is argued, leads to a recognition of its essential role in education, and provides a set of principles for an approach to teaching it which integrates the study of language and literature.

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Lengua extranjera: inglés.Inglés. Material Complementario.

Contenuti

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• PART ONE The significance of poetry
• 1 To begin with: common features and uncouth rhymes
• 2 Significance beyond plain speaking
• 3 Procedures for interpretation: reference and representation
• 4 Dissociation from context: the poem on the page
• 5 Verbal patterning and the grammar of representation
• 6 Time and place in a different dimension
• 7 Other patterns, alternative realities
• 8 Parallel lines and parallel texts
• 9 Intertextual associations
• 10 Aesthetic effects and relative values
• 11 So the meaning escapes ...
• 12 In summary
• PART TWO The teaching of poetry
• 1 The point of poetry
• 2 Educational relevance; recreation and language awareness
• 3 Pedagogic approaches; against exegesis
• 4 Composing poetic text: line assembly
• 5 Completing poetic text: verse blanks
• 6 Intertextual comparison and the use of variants
• 7 Comparing poems with prose description
• 8 Deriving poems from prose description
• 9 Deriving and comparing poetic variants
• 10 Progressive derivation: composing interim versions
• 11 Using prose paraphrases
• 12 Comparing derived and authorized versions
• 13 Comparing different modes of poetic writing
• 14 In conclusion
  
• Notes
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index
• Index of poets

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0194371840
• ISBN 13: 9780194371841
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 248
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: Ufficio Anagrafiche Messaggerie; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia