英詩への招待 Invitation to Poetry : The Pleasures of Studying Poetry and Poetics (How to Study Literature)

Steinman, Lisa M.

Blackwell Pub（2008/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 238 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781405131636
• DDC分類 811.0071

基本説明

Examines British and American materials from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries in order to give students a sense of the range of different period styles, poetic projects, and strategies.

Full Description

For anyone who has ever wanted to become fluent in the language of poetry, Invitation to Poetry will prove an essential guide. This book:



Teaches the serious student how to 'speak poetry' through an in-depth examination of the traditional features and technical vocabulary of poetic language;


Examines British and American materials from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries in order to give students a sense of a range of different period styles, poetic projects, and strategies;


Explicitly examines, questions and challenges the relationship of poetry to literary periods and canons;


Offers the technical tools essential for close reading and interpretation across a broad chronological spectrum.

Contents

Preface. Acknowledgments.

1. Conceptual Syntax: An Introduction to the Way Poems Invite Different Approaches and Position Readers.

2. Speaking Poetry: Night Pieces and Intertextual Conversations.

3. The Gestures and Subjects of the Sonnet.

4. The Uses of Meter and Rhythm in the Sonnet.

5. The Form of the Voice: Tone and Diction.

6. Modes, Odes, and Odic Gestures.

7. What is Pastoral?.

8. Traditions, Legacies, and Individual Talents.

9. Forests and Trees, or Playing with Poems.

Index