Reading poetry : a complete coursebook
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Reading poetry : a complete coursebook
Routledge, 2022
3rd ed
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [619]-636) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
One stop introduction and anthology, including 122 poems in full; no additional materials/books are needed
Features such as exercises, an extended glossary, guides for further reading and an expanded bibliography engage students and embed their learning
New edition offers lots more contemporary and global examples making this the most up-to-date poetry textbook on the market
Table of Contents
Part I. Formal Introduction 1. What is Poetry? How Should we Read it? 2. Rhythm and Metre 3. Significant Form: Metre and Syntax 4. Creative Form and the Arbitrary Nature of Language Part II. Textual Strategies 5. Figurative Language 6. Poetic Metaphor 7. Hearing Voices in Poetic Texts 8. Speakers with Attitude: Tone and Irony 9. Ambiguity 10. Closure, Pluralism and Undecidability Part III. Text in Contexts/Contexts in Texts 11. Introducing Contexts 12. Genre 13. The Sonnet 14. Allusion, Influence and Intertextuality 15. Post-Colonial Poetry 16. World Poetry 17. The Poetry of the Earth Glossary Poems and Passages Discussed or Used for Exercises Bibliography
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