On Poetic Language

Author : Tom Jones
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748656189

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Poetic Language by Tom Jones Pdf

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.

Author : Julia Kristeva
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780231561402

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Revolution in Poetic Language by Julia Kristeva Pdf

In Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva explicates her foundational distinction between the semiotic and the symbolic and explores their interrelationships. Linking the psychosomatic to the literary and the literary to a larger political horizon, she questions the premises of linguistic, psychoanalytic, philosophical, and literary theories.

Author : Stefan Holander
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135914004

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Wallace Stevens and the Realities of Poetic Language by Stefan Holander Pdf

This study examines Wallace Stevens' ideas and practice of poetic language with a focus on the 1930s, an era in which Stevens persistently thematized a keenly felt pressure for the possible social involvement and political utility of poetic language. The argument suggests how mutually implicated elements of his poetry such as diction, prosody and metaphor are relied on to signify or enact aesthetic closure; both in the negative terms of expressive impotence and unethical isolation and the positive ones of imaginative and linguistic change. In this respect, the study deals closely with the epistemologically and ethically fraught issue of the ambiguous and volatile role of non-semantic elements and linguistic difficulty in Stevens' language. Assuming that these facets are not exclusive to this period but receive a very clear, and therefore instructive, formulation in it, the discussion outlines some of Stevens' most central tropes for poetic creativity at this stage of his career, suggesting ways in which they came to form part of his later discourse on poetic functionality, when polemical concepts for the imagination, such as "evasion" and "escapism," became central. Stevens' prosody is discussed from within an eclectic analytical framework in which cumulative rhythmics is complemented by traditional metrics as a way of doing justice to his rich, varied and cognitively volatile use of verse language. The expressive potency of prosodic patterning is understood both as an effect of its resistance to semantic interpretation and by assuming a formal drive to interpret them in relation to the semantic and metaphoric staging of individual poems. A poem, in turn, is understood both as a strategic, stylistically deviant response to the challenges of a particular historical moment, and as an attempt to communicate through creating a sense of linguistic resistance and otherness.

Author : Michael Ferber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108429122

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Poetry and Language by Michael Ferber Pdf

An accessible introduction to poetry's unusual uses of language that tackles a wide range of poetic features from a linguistic point of view. Equally appealing to the non-expert and more experienced student of linguistics, this book delivers an engaging and often witty summary of how we define what poetry is.

Author : Jan Mukařovský
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Literature
ISBN : OCLC:2129560

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On Poetic Language by Jan Mukařovský Pdf

Author : Marjorie Perloff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780226924861

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Wittgenstein's Ladder by Marjorie Perloff Pdf

“[Perloff] has brilliantly adapted Wittgenstein’s conception of meaning and use to an analysis of contemporary language poetry.” —Linda Voris, Boston Review Marjorie Perloff, among our foremost critics of twentieth-century poetry, argues that Ludwig Wittgenstein provided writers with a radical new aesthetic, a key to recognizing the inescapable strangeness of ordinary language. Taking seriously Wittgenstein’s remark that “philosophy ought really to be written only as a form of poetry,” Perloff begins by discussing Wittgenstein the “poet.” What we learn is that the poetics of everyday life is anything but banal. “This book has the lucidity and the intelligence we have come to expect from Marjorie Perloff.” —Linda Munk, American Literature “Wittgenstein’s Ladder offers significant insights into the current state of poetry, literature, and literary study. Perloff emphasizes the vitality of reading and thinking about poetry, and the absolute necessity of pushing against the boundaries that define and limit our worlds.” —David Clippinger, Chicago Review “Majorie Perloff has done more to illuminate our understanding of twentieth century poetic language than perhaps any other critic . . . Entertaining, witty, and above all highly original.” —Willard Bohn, SubStance

Author : Josephine Miles
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780520374188

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The Continuity of Poetic Language by Josephine Miles Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1951.

Author : Jack L. Siler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136085062

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Poetic Language and Political Engagement in the Poetry of Keats by Jack L. Siler Pdf

In this incisive volume Siler traces the uneasy relationship between the content of Keats' poems and social history. In the process, he discovers that the early poems are linked with the mission statement of the radical journal Annals of the Fine Arts, whilst the poems after Endymion reveal a poet more concerned with the nature of poetic representation--its why and wherefore.

Author : Lyn Hejinian
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780520922273

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The Language of Inquiry by Lyn Hejinian Pdf

Lyn Hejinian is among the most prominent of contemporary American poets. Her autobiographical poem My Life, a best-selling book of innovative American poetry, has garnered accolades and fans inside and outside academia. The Language of Inquiry is a comprehensive and wonderfully readable collection of her essays, and its publication promises to be an important event for American literary culture. Here, Hejinian brings together twenty essays written over a span of almost twenty-five years. Like many of the Language Poets with whom she has been associated since the mid-1970s, Hejinian turns to language as a social space, a site of both philosophical inquiry and political address. Central to these essays are the themes of time and knowledge, consciousness and perception. Hejinian's interests cover a range of texts and figures. Prominent among them are Sir Francis Bacon and Enlightenment-era explorers; Faust and Sheherazade; Viktor Shklovsky and Russian formalism; William James, Hannah Arendt, and Martin Heidegger. But perhaps the most important literary presence in the essays is Gertrude Stein; the volume includes Hejinian's influential "Two Stein Talks," as well as two more recent essays on Stein's writings.

Author : Milosav Z. Carkic
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 365981749X

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On Poetic Language by Milosav Z. Carkic Pdf

Author : T. Jones
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230511026

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Pope and Berkeley by T. Jones Pdf

The first study dedicated to the relationship between Alexander Pope and George Berkeley, this book undertakes a comparative reading of their work on the visual environment, economics and providence, challenging current ideas of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in early eighteenth-century Britain. It shows how Berkeley's idea that the phenomenal world is the language of God, learnt through custom and experience, can help to explain some of Pope's conservative sceptical arguments, and also his virtuoso poetic techniques.

Author : Martin Heidegger
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2001-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780060937287

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Poetry, Language, Thought by Martin Heidegger Pdf

Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opened up appreciation of Martin Heidegger beyond the confines of philosophy to the reaches of poetry. In Heidegger's thinking, poetry is not a mere amusement or form of culture but a force that opens up the realm of truth and brings man to the measure of his being and his world.

Author : Kristine S. Santilli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136714139

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Poetic Gesture by Kristine S. Santilli Pdf

This study addresses the problem of meaning as it is conveyed by poetic language, attempting to move beyond some of the obstacles and boundaries of contemporary critical approaches. By providing a phenomenological context, and through a theoretical contemplation of certain myths as embodiments of the tacit 'logic' of poetry, the book argues that poems convey meaning much the way that spontaneous unreadable gestures do. Moving between theory and practice, and drawing upon the poetry of Wallace Stevens whose work is embedded with a richness and complexity of gesture, the author shows how the poetic text sustains and embodies an inconvertible, ancient and innately human form of linguistic knowledge.

Author : Tina Chang,Nathalie Handal,Ravi Shankar
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015076177800

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Language for a New Century by Tina Chang,Nathalie Handal,Ravi Shankar Pdf

An extensive collection of contemporary Asian and Middle Eastern poetry includes the work of four hundred contributors from a variety of backgrounds, in a thematically organized anthology that is complemented by personal essays.

Author : Matthew Zapruder
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780062343093

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Why Poetry by Matthew Zapruder Pdf

An impassioned call for a return to reading poetry and an incisive argument for poetry’s accessibility to all readers, by critically acclaimed poet Matthew Zapruder In Why Poetry, award-winning poet Matthew Zapruder takes on what it is that poetry—and poetry alone—can do. Zapruder argues that the way we have been taught to read poetry is the very thing that prevents us from enjoying it. In lively, lilting prose, he shows us how that misunderstanding interferes with our direct experience of poetry and creates the sense of confusion or inadequacy that many of us feel when faced with it. Zapruder explores what poems are, and how we can read them, so that we can, as Whitman wrote, “possess the origin of all poems,” without the aid of any teacher or expert. Most important, he asks how reading poetry can help us to lead our lives with greater meaning and purpose. Anchored in poetic analysis and steered through Zapruder’s personal experience of coming to the form, Why Poetry is engaging and conversational, even as it makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry in an age when information is constantly being mistaken for knowledge. While he provides a simple reading method for approaching poems and illuminates concepts like associative movement, metaphor, and negative capability, Zapruder explicitly confronts the obstacles that readers face when they encounter poetry to show us that poetry can be read, and enjoyed, by anyone.