The Shapes of Early English Poetry : Style, Form, History

Irina Dumitrescu

ISBN 10: 1580443591 / ISBN 13: 9781580443593

Published by De Gruyter, 2019

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts. The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Shapes of Early English Poetry : Style, Form, History
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1580443591
• ISBN 13: 9781580443593
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 240W x 161H x 25D millimeters 240 millimeters width by 161 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 680 grams

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Synopsis

This volume contributes to the study of early English poetics. In these essays, several related approaches and fields of study radiate outward from poetics, including stylistics, literary history, word studies, gender studies, metrics, and textual criticism. By combining and redirecting these traditional scholarly methods, as well as exploring newer ones such as object-oriented ontology and sound studies, these essays demonstrate how poetry responds to its intellectual, literary, and material contexts.

The contributors propose to connect the small (syllables, words, and phrases) to the large (histories, emotions, faiths, secrets). In doing so, they attempt to work magic on the texts they consider: turning an ordinary word into something strange and new, or demonstrating texture, difference, and horizontality where previous eyes had perceived only smoothness, sameness, and verticality.

About the Authors

Eric Weiskott, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., USA, and Irina Dumitrescu, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn, Deutschland.

Eric Weiskott, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass., USA, and Irina Dumitrescu, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Univ. Bonn, Germany.