The written poem : semiotic conventions from Old to modern English /
This text discusses the visual and graphic conventions in contemporary poetry in English. It defines contemporary poetry and its historical construction as a ""seen object"" and uses literary and social theory of the 1990s to facilitate the study. In examining how a poem is recog...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
London ; New York :
Cassell,
1998.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This text discusses the visual and graphic conventions in contemporary poetry in English. It defines contemporary poetry and its historical construction as a ""seen object"" and uses literary and social theory of the 1990s to facilitate the study. In examining how a poem is recognized, the interpretive conventions for reading it and how the spacial arrangement on the page is meaningful for contemporary poetry, the text takes examples from individual poems. There is also a focus on changes in manuscript conventions from Old to Middle English poetry and the change from a social to a personal und. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 184 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-177) and index. |
ISBN: | 1847140963 9781847140968 9780304339990 0304339997 0304707341 9780304707348 1281291560 9781281291561 9786611291563 6611291563 |