The Craft of Poetry: Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation

ISBN-13: 9781138850064 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 168 str.

Derek Attridge; Henry Staten

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Derek Attridge is Professor of English at the University of York, UK and 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.