The Written Poem
Semiotic Conventions from Old to Modern English
1st Edition
Published on 1. September 1998
192 pages
978-1-84714-096-8 (ISBN)
Description
This text discusses the visual and graphic conventions in contemporary poetry in English. It defines contemporary poetry and its historical construction as a "seen object" and uses literary and social theory of the 1990s to facilitate the study. In examining how a poem is recognized, the interpretive conventions for reading it and how the spacial arrangement on the page is meaningful for contemporary poetry, the text takes examples from individual poems. There is also a focus on changes in manuscript conventions from Old to Middle English poetry and the change from a social to a personal understanding of poetic meaning from the late 18th through the 19th century.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
978-1-84714-096-8 (9781847140968)
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Person
Rosemary Huisman is senior lecturer in English and head of Semiotics at the University of Sydney.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part One: Contemporary Poetry
- Chapter 1 Poetic Discourse and Genre
- Chapter 2 The Seen Poem and Its Semiosis
- Chapter 3 The Semiotic of Art and Music
- Chapter 4 The Semiotic of the Body
- Chapter 5 The Semiotic of Language
- Part Two: From Old English to Contemporary Poetry
- Chapter 6 The Origin of the English Line, 1100-1300
- Chapter 7 The Transition to a Literate Subject, 1500-1800
- Chapter 8 The Reading Subject and the Writing Subject, 1800-1990
- Epilogue: The Postmodern Subject and the New Media Poem
- Bibliography
- Index
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