Robert Rowland Smith

On Modern Poetry

From Theory to Total Criticism

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All too often, the history of poetry criticism in the 20th Century is told as a tale of two sides. While 'Lit crit' pored over the author's every line, 'Theory' stood on the shoulder of texts to gaze into the metaphysical mists. Drawing on the key insights of both Lit crit and Theory, On Modern Poetry tries to get beyond the opposition between them, proposing instead a 'total criticism' that draws on all resources available. It combines 'analytic irony' with 'imaginative empathy' in order to generate fresh insights. The themes discussed in the first part of the book include tradition, voice, rhyme, rhetoric, and objects, bringing in critics s… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4411-4976-3
EAN: 9781441149763
Produktnummer: 17018977
Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 1'381 KB

Über den Autor

Robert Rowland Smith is a Quondam Fellow of AllSouls College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of Derrida and Autobiography andDeath-Drive: Freudian Hauntings in Literature and Art, as well as two works of popular philosophy - Breakfast with Socrates: The Philosophyof Everyday Life and Driving with Plato: the Meaning ofLife's Milestones. A frequent contributor to BBC radio andtelevision, he is also a columnist and reviewer for the Sunday Times.