Overview
- Provides an innovative contribution to the stylistics of poetry
- Presents an essentialist definition of ‘difficulty’
- Applies this definition to a selection of 20th and 21st century Anglo-American poems
- Offers an original framework for the analysis of difficulty in poetry that combines analytical tools from literary theory and cognitive psychology
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Theorising Poetic Difficulty
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Analysing Poetic Difficulty
Keywords
- stylistics of poetry
- cognitive poetics
- 21st century Anglo-American poetry
- modernist poetry
- postmodernist poems
- linguistic indicators of difficulty
- relevance theory
- Language processing
- literary comprehension
- literary communication
- pragmatics
- elitism
- obscurity
- Pluralism
- intentionality
- abstraction
- philosophy of language
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Difficulty in Poetry
Book Subtitle: A Stylistic Model
Authors: Davide Castiglione
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97001-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97000-4Published: 26 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07283-4Published: 28 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97001-1Published: 12 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 386
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations
Topics: Stylistics, Poetry and Poetics, Cognitive Psychology, Literary Theory, Language and Literature, Psycholinguistics