Poetic Language: Theory and Practice from the Renaissance to the Present - Brossura

Jones, Tom

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0748656162 ISBN 13: 9780748656165

Casa editrice: Edinburgh Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

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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Tom Jones teaches English at the University of St Andrews, specialising in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, and poetic theory and practice. He is the author of Pope and Berkeley: The Language of Poetry and Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and essays on Pope, Berkeley, eighteenth-century philosophies of language, and contemporary poetry and poetics.

Tom Jones is Senior Lecturer at the University of St Andrews

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The first study of poetic language from a historical and philosophical perspectiveIn 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 ReadingTom Jones teaches English at the University of St Andrews, specialising in eighteenth-century literature and philosophy, and poetic theory and practice. He is the author of Pope and Berkeley: The Language of Poetry and Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and essays on Pope, Berkeley, eighteenth-century philosophies of language, and contemporary poetry and poetics.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Edinburgh Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0748656162
• ISBN 13: 9780748656165
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 207
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile