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Heart beats : everyday life and the memorized poem /

Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central pla...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Robson, Catherine, 1962-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: THE MEMORIZED POEM IN BRITISH AND AMERICAN PUBLIC EDUCATION; PART II: CASE STUDIES; Felicia Hemans, "Casabianca"; Thomas Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"; Charles Wolfe, "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna"; Afterword; Appendixes; Notes; Works Cited; Index.