Eagleton How to Read a Poem

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-30621-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

Lucid, entertaining and full of insight, How To Read A Poemis designed to banish the intimidation that too often attends thesubject of poetry, and in doing so to bring it into the personalpossession of the students and the general reader.
* * Offers a detailed examination of poetic form and its relationto content.
* Takes a wide range of poems from the Renaissance to the presentday and submits them to brilliantly illuminating closesanalysis.
* Discusses the work of major poets, including John Milton,Alexander Pope, John Keats, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickinson,W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, W.H.Auden, Seamus Heaney, Derek Mahon,and many more.
* Includes a helpful glossary of poetic terms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eagleton, Terry

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
Acknowledgements.
1. The Functions of Criticism.
The End of Criticism?.
Politics and Rhetoric.
The Death of Experience.
2. What is Poetry?.
Poetry and Prose.
Poetry and Morality.
Poetry and Fiction.
Poetry and Pragmatism.
Poetic Language.
3. Formalists.
Literariness.
Estrangement.
The Semiotics of Yury Lotman.
The Incarnational Fallacy.
4. In Pursuit of Form.
The Meaning of Form.
Form Versus Content.
Form as Transcending Content.
Poetry and Performance.
Two American Examples.
5. How to Read a Poem.
Is Criticism Just Subjective.
Estrangement.
Tone, Mood and Pitch.
Intensity and Pace.
Texture.
Syntax, Grammar and Punctuation.
Ambiguity.
Punctuation.
Rhyme.
Rhythm and Metre.
Imagery.
6. Four Nature Poems.
'Ode to Evening'.
'The Solitary Reaper'.
'God's Grandeur'.
'Fifty Faggots'.
Glossary.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Terry Eagleton is John Edward Taylor Professor of English Literature at the University of Manchester. His recent publications include The English Novel (2004), Sweet Violence: The Idea of the Tragic (2003), The Idea of Culture (2000), Scholars and Rebels in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (1999), Literary Theory: An Introduction (Second Edition, 1996) and The Illusions of Postmodernism (1996), all published by Blackwell Publishing.