Lisa M Steinman

Invitation to Poetry

The Pleasures of Studying Poetry and Poetics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For anyone who has ever wanted to become fluent in the language of poetry, Invitation to Poetry will prove an essential guide. This book: * Teaches the serious student how to 'speak poetry' through an in-depth examination of the traditional features and technical vocabulary of poetic language; * Examines British and American materials from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries in order to give students a sense of a range of different period styles, poetic projects, and strategies; * Explicitly examines, questions and challenges the relationship of poetry to literary periods and canons; * Offers the technical tools essential for close reading and interpretation across a broad chronological spectrum.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 162mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9781405131643
• ISBN-10: 1405131640
• Artikelnr.: 22951974

Autorenporträt

Lisa M. Steinman is the Kenan Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College. A practicing poet, she has also written two highly regarded books on poetry: Masters of Repetition: Poetry, Culture, and Work in Thomson, Wordsworth, Shelley, and Emerson (1998) and Made In America: Science, Technology, and American Modernist Poets (1989). Her work has been recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and The Rockefeller Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1. Conceptual Syntax: An Introduction to the Way Poems Invite Different
Approaches and Position Readers.
2. Speaking Poetry: Night Pieces and Intertextual Conversations.
3. The Gestures and Subjects of the Sonnet.
4. The Uses of Meter and Rhythm in the Sonnet.
5. The Form of the Voice: Tone and Diction.
6. Modes, Odes, and Odic Gestures.
7. What is Pastoral?.
8. Traditions, Legacies, and Individual Talents.
9. Forests and Trees, or Playing with Poems.
Index

Rezensionen

"One could not find a better guide than Steinman (Reed College) for developing a sound approach to reading poems. This eclecticism in examples proves to readers how a rigorous approach to reading can allow one to tackle a variety of texts from different eras. Written in a lively and engaging manner, this book is best suited to those embarking on literary studies or creative writing, particularly poetry. Highly recommended." (Choice Reviews, October 2008)"To the casual reader, Steinman explains how poems work; tothe critical reader, why they keep working. Ranging over severalcenturies, styles, genres, and modes of English verse,Invitation to Poetry provides both the tools needed to'play with poems' and a manual in theiruse."
-C. D. Blanton, University of California,Berkeley

"Lisa Steinman's Invitation to Poetry, withits effortless scholarship and engaging manner, offers a wonderfulintroduction to the study of poetry. This is a beautifully-writtenbook which offers many pleasures, and for those who readattentively, a tremendous depth of reference underpinning itsargument."
-Tim Armstrong, Royal Holloway, University of London