The Craft of Poetry

Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-85007-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 174 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 278 g

This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics." This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in reality a continual negotiation between readers. But Derek Attridge and Henry Staten agree to rein in their own interpretive ingenuity and "minimally interpret" poems – reading them with careful regard for what the poem can be shown to actually say, in detail and as a whole, from opening to closure. Based on a series of emails, the book explores a number of topics in the reading of poetry, including historical and intellectual context, modernist difficulty, the role of criticism, and translation. This highly readable book will appeal to anyone who enjoys poetry, offering an inspiring resource for students whilst also mounting a challenge to some of the approaches to poetry currently widespread in the academy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Attridge, Derek

Staten, Henry

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Nachschlagewerke

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Introduction: Dialogical poetics Chapter 1: Minimal interpretation Chapter 2: Figurative language Chapter 3: Historical context Chapter 4: Intellectual and cultural context Chapter 5: Situated subjects Chapter 6: Poetic commentary Chapter 7: Modernist poetry and discursive logic Chapter 8: The poetry of ellipsis Chapter 9: Translation Index

Über Autor(innen)

Derek Attridgeis Professor of English at the University of York, UKand a Fellow of the British Academy.
Henry Staten is Byron W. and Alice L. Lockwood Professor in the Humanities at the University of Washington, USA.