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Difficulty in Poetry Davide Castiglione

Difficulty in Poetry By Davide Castiglione

Difficulty in Poetry by Davide Castiglione


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This book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is difficult - hard to read, hard to understand, hard to engage with.

Difficulty in Poetry Summary

Difficulty in Poetry: A Stylistic Model by Davide Castiglione

This book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is difficult - hard to read, hard to understand, hard to engage with. It is the first work to offer a stylistic and cognitive model that sheds new light on the mechanisms of difficulty, as well as on its range of potential effects. Its eight chapters are organised into two thematic parts. The first traces the history of difficulty, surveys its main scholarly traditions, addresses related themes from elitism to obscurity, from abstraction to intentionality and introduces a wide array of analytical tools from literary theory and cognitive psychology. These tools are then consistently applied in the second part, which includes several extended analyses of poems by canonical modernists such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane, alongside those of postmodernist innovators such as Geoffrey Hill, Susan Howe and Charles Bernstein, among others. This innovative work will provide fresh insights and approaches for scholars of stylistics, literary studies, cognitive poetics and psychology.

About Davide Castiglione

Davide Castiglione is a lecturer in the Department of English Philology at Vilnius University, Lithuania. Author of two poetry collections, and a specialist in the poetics and stylistics of poetry, his research has been published in theJournal of Literary Semantics and in Language and Literature.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Part I. Theorising poetic difficulty.- Chapter 1. Approaches and issues.- Chapter 2. Semantics and poetic meaning.- Chapter 3. Linguistic indicators of difficulty.- Chapter 4. Readerly indicators of difficulty.- Chapter 5. A new stylistic model.- Part II. Analysing poetic difficulty.- Chapter 6. Geoffrey Hill.- Chapter 7. Ezra Pound.- Chapter 8. Wallace Stevens.- Chapter 9. Jeremy H. Prynne.- Chapter 10. Susan Howe.- Chapter 11. Mark Strand (the accessible poem).- Chapter 12. Towards a typology of difficulty in poetry.- Conclusion.

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NPB9783319970004
9783319970004
3319970003
Difficulty in Poetry: A Stylistic Model by Davide Castiglione
New
Hardback
Springer International Publishing AG
2018-10-26
386
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