Cargando…

Selected Poems : From Modernism to Now.

Complete poems are bulky and too heavy to carry around. Collected poems pretend to be complete, but usually are not. Selected poems are altogether unpretentious and reader-friendly. But they can be problematic. Who decides what poems are important for inclusion in a volume of selected poems? When th...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aji, Helene
Otros Autores: Kilgore-Caradec, Jennifer
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2012.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Complete poems are bulky and too heavy to carry around. Collected poems pretend to be complete, but usually are not. Selected poems are altogether unpretentious and reader-friendly. But they can be problematic. Who decides what poems are important for inclusion in a volume of selected poems? When the selection occurs during the author's lifetime, may one assume that the author was involved? What motivates the choice of one poem over another? How do readers' preferences influence this choice? ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (213 pages)
ISBN:9781443845847
1443845841
1299646476
9781299646476