The language of contemporary poetry : a framework for poetic analysis

The language of contemporary poetry : a framework for poetic analysis / Lesley Jeffries.

This book introduces a new way of looking at how poems mean, drawing on the framework first developed in the authors book Critical Stylistics, but applied here to aesthetic more than ideological meaning. The aim is to empower readers of poetry to articulate the features of poetic language that they...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jeffries Lesley (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Series:Palgrave studies in language, literature and style.
Subjects:
Poetics.
English poetry > History and criticism.
English poetry
Poetics
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Contemporary poetry and textual meaning
  • Part 1: Core Features Of Textual Meaning
  • Chapter 2. Naming and Describing: people, places and things in poems
  • Chapter 3. Representing processes: actions, states and events in poetry
  • Chapter 4. Prioritising: Subordination and information structure in poems
  • Chapter 5. Representing time, space and society: constructing the world of the poem
  • Part 2: Intermittent Features Of Textual Meaning
  • Chapter 6. Equating and Contrasting: Constructing equivalence and opposition in poems
  • Chapter 7. Enumerating and Exemplifying: Lists and open meaning in poems
  • Chapter 8. Negating: Poetic construction of what is not
  • Chapter 9. Hypothesising: Possible Worlds, hypothetical scenarios and wish fulfilment in poems
  • Chapter 10. Alluding: Implying and Assuming in poems
  • Chapter 11. Presenting others speech and thought: Multiple voices in poems
  • Chapter 12. Evoking: experiencing the poems world
  • Part Three: Conclusions
  • Chapter 13. Putting it all together: Integrated analysis of poems
  • Chapter 14. Textual meaning, linguistic theory and the stylistics of poetry.

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