Reading poetry : an introduction
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Reading poetry : an introduction
Pearson Longman, 2007
2nd ed
- : pbk.
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First edition published in Great Britain, 1996
"Pearson Education Limited 2007"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Successive chapters introduce key skills and critical or theoretical issues, enabling users to read poetry with enjoyment, insight and an awareness of the implications of what they are doing.
This new edition includes a new chapter on 'Post-colonial Poetry', a substantial increase in the number of end-of-chapter interactive exercises, and a comprehensive Glossary of poetic terms. Not just an add-on, the Glossary works as a key resource for the structuring of particular topics in any individual teaching or learning programme. Many of the exercises and interactive discussions develop not only the skills of competent close reading but also the necessary confidence and experience in locating historical and other contextual information through library or internet searches. The aim is to enhance readers' literary and scholarly competence and to make it fun!
Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Part One Formal Introduction
1 What Is Poetry? How Do We Read It?
2 Rhythm and Metre
3 Significant Form: Metre and Syntax
4 Creative Form and the Arbitrary Nature of Language
Part Two Textual Strategies
5 Figurative Language
6 Poetic Metaphor
7 Hearing Voices in Poetic Texts
8 Voices with Attitude: Tone and Irony
9 Ambiguity
Part Three Texts in Contexts/Contexts in Texts
10 Introducing Contexts
11 Genre
12 The Sonnet
13 Allusion, Influence and Intertextuality
14 Poetry, Discourse, History
15 The Locations of Poetry
16 Post-Colonial Poetry
Part Four An Open-ended Conclusion
17 Closure, Pluralism and Undecidability
Glossary
Key to Poems and Passages Discussed or Used for Exercises
Bibliography
Index
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