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Bodies of Poems

Graphic Poetics in a Historical Perspective

Produktform: Buch / Einband - flex.(Paperback)

How is meaning created by a poem? Through the invisible ideas and thoughts conveyed by the text or through the physical presence of book, paper and print? In the author argues that the material properties of poetic texts are meaningful in their own right but often ignored and made invisible in poetry criticism. Through a number of examples ranging from the introduction of print technology in the fifteenth century to late twentieth-century poets such as Adrienne Rich and Seamus Heaney, this study examines the ways in which poems are products of the contemporary state of print technology, legal and social definitions of authors and texts, and culturally and historically determined assumptions about the self and the body. Although indebted to recent innovative work in textual criticism, this book is a pioneering attempt to place the study of poetic texts as material artefacts in a sustained historical narrative.weiterlesen

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Sprache(n): Englisch

ISBN: 978-3-03911-343-9 / 978-3039113439 / 9783039113439

Verlag: Peter Lang Group AG, International Academic Publishers

Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2008

Seiten: 192

Auflage: 1

Autor(en): Lennart Nyberg

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