Reading Poetry offers a comprehensive and accessible guide to the art of reading poetry. Successive chapters introduce key skills and critical or theoretical issues, enabling users to read poetry with enjoyment, insight and an awareness of the implications of what they are doing. This new edition includes a new chapter on 'Post-colonial Poetry', a substantial increase in the number of end-of-chapter interactive exercises, and a comprehensive Glossary of poetic terms. Not just an add-on, the Glossary works as a key resource for the structuring of particular topics in any individual teaching or learning programme. Many of the exercises and interactive discussions develop not only the skills of competent close reading but also the necessary confidence and experience in locating historical and other contextual information through library or internet searches. The aim is to enhance readers' literary and scholarly competence and to make it fun!
| ISBN | 0582894204 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780582894204
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 1090 | | Publisher | Pearson Education Limited | | Published in | Harlow | | Imprint | Longman | | Previous ISBN | 9780133552980 | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 240 | | Publication date | 28 Jun 2007 | | Width (mm) | 170 | | DEWEY | 821.009 | | Spine width (mm) | 36 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 648 | |
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Contents Acknowledgements Preface Part One Formal Introduction 1 What Is Poetry? How Do We Read It? 2 Rhythm and Metre 3 Significant Form: Metre and Syntax 4 Creative Form and the Arbitrary Nature of Language Part Two Textual Strategies 5 Figurative Language 6 Poetic Metaphor 7 Hearing Voices in Poetic Texts 8 Voices with Attitude: Tone and Irony 9 Ambiguity Part Three Texts in Contexts/Contexts in Texts 10 Introducing Contexts 11 Genre 12 The Sonnet 13 Allusion, Influence and Intertextuality 14 Poetry, Discourse, History 15 The Locations of Poetry 16 Post-Colonial Poetry Part Four An Open-ended Conclusion 17 Closure, Pluralism and Undecidability Glossary Key to Poems and Passages Discussed or Used for Exercises Bibliography Index
"ReadingPoetrystands out from other introductions to poetry in its brilliant combination of practical guidance and theoretical savvy. Students who use this book will be helped to enjoy and discuss poems, introduced to some of the major varieties of poetic criticism, and invited to reflect on what makes poetry important today. Reading Poetry is, in my view, the best introductory book on the study of poetry available. " Professor Derek Attridge, Universityof York
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