The Universal Deep Structure of Modern Poetry
Title | The Universal Deep Structure of Modern Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | John A.F. Hopkins |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2020-04-02 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 1527549100 |
With something of a poetry renaissance currently under way worldwide, there is now, more than ever, a need for a solidly-based methodology for interpreting poems: something more empirical than traditional âlit-critâ approaches, and something more linguistically-informed than the version of âpostmodernismâ rampant in certain Anglophone universities. The latter approach, which tends to allow the individual reader to do what he/she likes with a poetic text, is inadequate to interpret modernist poetry, whose English-language precursors may be found in the late Romantics; its pioneers were already writing (in France) as early as 1840. What is so different about the modernists? Most importantly, their works are monumental, in that they are strongly resistant to deconstruction. Contributing to this resistance is the fact that they are built around two deep-level propositions, each of which generates a set of indirectly-signifying images, sharing the same internal structure, but having a different vocabulary. Thus, they do not signify according to linear narrative, but according to these propositionsâand the relation between themâwhich may be reconstructed by a careful comparison of images on the textual surface. Every textâas subject-signârefers to an intertextual object-sign, which is usually another poem, but may also be a film or other form of art. Mediating between these two signs is their reader-constructed interpretant, which completes the semiotic triad. As this book shows, the novelty of this sign is thrown into relief by the contrast it makes with a lexical counterpart from the readerâs experience, which differs from the interpretant in structure. The bookâs inclusion of French and Japanese, as well as English poems, shows that deep-level signifying mechanisms may well be universal, with considerable research and pedagogical implications.
The Universal Deep Structure of Modern Poetry
Title | The Universal Deep Structure of Modern Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | JOHN A. F. HOPKINS |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2020-04 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781527546257 |
With something of a poetry renaissance currently under way worldwide, there is now, more than ever, a need for a solidly-based methodology for interpreting poems: something more empirical than traditional â ~lit-critâ (TM) approaches, and something more linguistically-informed than the version of â ~postmodernismâ (TM) rampant in Anglophone universities. The latter approach, which tends to allow the individual reader to do what he/she likes with a poetic text, is inadequate to interpret modernist poetry, whose English-language precursors may be found in the late Romantics; its pioneers were already writing (in France) as early as 1840. What is so different about the modernists? Most importantly, their works are monumental, in that they are strongly resistant to deconstruction. Contributing to this resistance is the fact that they are built around two deep-level propositions, each of which generates a set of indirectly-signifying images, sharing the same internal structure, but having a different vocabulary. Thus, they do not signify according to linear narrative, but according to these propositionsâ "and the relation between themâ "which may be reconstructed by a careful comparison of images on the textual surface. Every textâ "as subject-signâ "refers to an intertextual object-sign, which is usually another poem, but may also be a film or other form of art. Mediating between these two signs is their reader-constructed interpretant, which completes the semiotic triad. As this book shows, the novelty of this sign is thrown into relief by the contrast it makes with a counterpart from the readerâ (TM)s experience, which differs from the interpretant in structure. The bookâ (TM)s inclusion of French and Japanese, as well as English poems, shows that deep-level signifying mechanisms may well be universal, with considerable research and pedagogical implications.
The Structure of Modern Poetry: from the Mid-nineteenth to the Mid-twentieth Century
Title | The Structure of Modern Poetry: from the Mid-nineteenth to the Mid-twentieth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Hugo Friedrich |
Publisher | Evanston [Ill.] : Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
The Structure of Modernist Poetry (Routledge Revivals)
Title | The Structure of Modernist Poetry (Routledge Revivals) PDF eBook |
Author | Theo Hermans |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 269 |
Release | 2014-08-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317637879 |
First published in 1982, this book provides a descriptive and comparative study of some of the fundamental structural aspects of modernist poetic writing in English, French and German in the first decades of the twentieth century. The work concerns itself primarily with basic structural elements and techniques and the assumptions that underlie and determine the modernist mode of poetic writing. Particular attention is paid to the theories developed by authors and to the essential ‘principles of construction’ that shape the structure of their poetry. Considering the work of a number of modernist poets, Theo Hermans argues that the various widely divergent forms and manifestations of modernistic poetry writing can only be properly understood as part of one general trend.
The Structure of Modern Poetry
Title | The Structure of Modern Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Hugo Friedrich |
Publisher | |
Pages | 199 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780598213266 |
The Modern Poetic Sequence
Title | The Modern Poetic Sequence PDF eBook |
Author | Macha Louis Rosenthal |
Publisher | New York : Oxford University Press |
Pages | 538 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN |
Sound and Form in Modern Poetry
Title | Sound and Form in Modern Poetry PDF eBook |
Author | Harvey Seymour Gross |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 362 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780472065172 |
An updated and expanded version of a classic and essential text on prosody.