The resistance to poetry:
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Main Author: Longenbach, James (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2004
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-118) and index
The Resistance to Poetry -- The End of the Line -- Forms of Disjunction -- Song and Story -- Untidy Activity -- The Spokenness of Poetry -- The Other Hand -- Leaving Things Out -- Composed Wonder
Poems convey knowledge, argues Longenbach, but do so in forms that work against their being facile vehicles for the efficient transmission of knowledge. This self-resistance is the source of the reader's pleasure: we read poetry not to escape difficulty but to embrace it
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 123 p.)
ISBN:0226492494
0226492516
9780226492490
9780226492513

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