Forms of poetic attention /

"A poem is often read as a set of formal, technical, and conventional devices that generate meaning or affect. However, Lucy Alford suggests that poetic language might be better understood as an instrument for tuning and refining the attention. Identifying a crucial link between poetic form and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Alford, Lucy, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Poetry > History and criticism.
Poetry > Psychological aspects.
Attention.
Cognition in literature.
Poetics.
Attention
Poésie > Histoire et critique.
Poésie > Aspect psychologique.
Cognition dans la littérature.
Poétique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Poetry.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Critiques littéraires.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Modes of transitive attention
  • Contemplation: attention's reach: Ponge: Heaney: Stevens: Bishop: Mullen
  • Desire: attention's hunger: Dickinson: Shakespeare: Lorde: Lowell: Oppen: Hass
  • Recollection: attending to the departed object: Al-Khansa': Hill: Celan: Cha: Carson
  • Imagination: attention's poiesis: Coleridge: Wordsworth: Rilke: Burnside
  • Modes of intransitive attention
  • Vigilance: states of suspension: Hölderlin: Mallarmé
  • Resignation: relinquishing the object: Rimbaud: Wright
  • Idleness: doldrums and gardens of time: O'Hara: Ammons: Retallack
  • Boredom: end-stopped attention: Bukowski: Gunn: Eliot

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