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Understanding Poetry: An Introduction
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ISBN13: 9781516540532
Publisher: Univ Readers
Published: Nov 13 2019
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.54
Height: 0.73 Width: 8.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
Understanding Poetry: An Introduction provides students with strategies for reading, analyzing, and writing about poetry in ways that reveal the nature, purpose, and process of poetry. The book encourages students to search for meanings with poems across multiple traditions, from the 12th to the 21st centuries.
The text begins with a chapter that examines the process and purpose of literary analysis. Later chapters explore explicit and implicit meaning, the construction of rhyme, word order, and syntax, and the use of repetition, contradiction, paradox, and juxtaposition within poetry. Students learn the ways in which context, significance, and genre factor into the understanding and enjoyment of the art form. They consider form, meter, and meaning, and learn the ways critical perspectives can contribute to interpretation and analysis of a variety of poems. Closing chapters serve as casebooks, which provide robust coverage of haiku, sonnets, and epic poetry. Throughout, students read historical and contemporary works by leading poets and take part in assignments that sharpen their critical and creative skills.
A comprehensive exploration of the form, Understanding Poetry is an ideal resource for courses in English literature and literary analysis.
Helen Doss, Ph.D. is a professor of English and Literature as well as the coordinator of first-year composition within the Department of English, Literature and Reading at Wilbur Wright College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz in literature with specialization in the history of science and pre- and early modern literature. Her current research examines representations of reproduction and intersectional experiences in 19th century British and contemporary women writers of African descent; women, migration, and work in contemporary China and Russia; and depictions of polar regions in cultural analyses of climate change.
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