Shira Wolosky (Professor of English and Profes American Literature

The Art of Poetry

How to Read a Poem

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Produktbeschreibung

Offers a step-by-step introduction to skills for reading poetry, working progressively from smaller units such as the individual word, the line, and the image to larger ones, such as verse forms, voice and gender, and metrical patterns, presented in conjunction with a selection of great English and American poems.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9780195371185
• ISBN-10: 0195371186
• Artikelnr.: 24879097

Autorenporträt

Shira Wolosky is Professor of English and American Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1: Word Choice
2: Syntax and the Poetic Line
3: Images: Simile and Metaphor
4: Metaphor and the Sonnet
5: The Sonnet
6: Poetic Conventions
7: More Verse Forms
8: Personification
9: Poetic Voice
10: Gender and Poetic Voice
11: Poetic Rhythm: Metric
12: Poetic Rhythm: Sound and Rhyme
13: Rhetoric: More Tropes
14: Incomplete Figures and the Art of Reading
Appendix
Glossary
Bibliographical Backgrounds
Index of Poems
Index of Poets
Index of Terms and Topics