Language of Contemporary Poetry

A Framework for Poetic Analysis

AvLesley Jeffries

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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This book introduces a new way of looking at how poems mean, drawing on the framework first developed in the author’s book Critical Stylistics, but applied here to aesthetic more than ideological meaning.

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Utgivningsdatum:2023-10-02
Mått:155 x 235 x 17 mm
Vikt:470 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Language, Literature and Style
Antal sidor:282
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031097515

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Lesley Jeffries is a retired Professor of English Language and Linguistics and an independent scholar living and working in Leeds, UK. She has published widely in stylistics, focussing on the style of contemporary poetry and ideology in news reporting and political discourse. She is also co-editor (with Dan Mcintyre) of Babel: The Language Magazine.

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1. Contemporary poetry and textual meaning.- Part 1: Core Features Of Textual Meaning.- Chapter 2. Naming and Describing: people, places and things in poems.- Chapter 3. Representing processes: actions, states and events in poetry .- Chapter 4. Prioritising: Subordination and information structure in poems.- Chapter 5. Representing time, space and society: constructing the world of the poem.- Part 2: Intermittent Features Of Textual Meaning.- Chapter 6. Equating and Contrasting: Constructing equivalence and opposition in poems.- Chapter 7. Enumerating and Exemplifying: Lists and open meaning in poems.- Chapter 8. Negating: Poetic construction of what is not.- Chapter 9. Hypothesising: Possible Worlds, hypothetical scenarios and wish fulfilment in poems.- Chapter 10. Alluding: Implying and Assuming in poems.- Chapter 11. Presenting others’ speech and thought: Multiple voices in poems.- Chapter 12. Evoking: experiencing the poem’s world.- Part Three: Conclusions.- Chapter 13. Putting it all together: Integrated analysis of poems.- Chapter 14. Textual meaning, linguistic theory and the stylistics of poetry.