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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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2020]
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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