Bodies of Poems

Lennart Nyberg

ISBN 10: 3039113437 / ISBN 13: 9783039113439

Edité par Peter Lang, Peter Lang Dez 2008, 2008

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Neuware -How is meaning created by a poem Through the invisible ideas and thoughts conveyed by the text or through the physical presence of book, paper and print In Bodies of Poems the author argues that the material properties of poetic texts are meaningful in their own right but often ignored and made invisible in poetry criticism. Through a number of examples ranging from the introduction of print technology in the fifteenth century to late twentieth-century poets such as Adrienne Rich and Seamus Heaney, this study examines the ways in which poems are products of the contemporary state of print technology, legal and social definitions of authors and texts, and culturally and historically determined assumptions about the self and the body. Although indebted to recent innovative work in textual criticism, this book is a pioneering attempt to place the study of poetic texts as material artefacts in a sustained historical narrative. 192 pp. Englisch.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Bodies of Poems
• Éditeur: Peter Lang, Peter Lang Dez 2008
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3039113437
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783039113439
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 220 L x 150 H x 11 P (en millimètres) 220 millimètres de largeur par 150 millimètres de hauteur par 11 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 272 grammes

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Synopsis

How is meaning created by a poem? Through the invisible ideas and thoughts conveyed by the text or through the physical presence of book, paper and print? In Bodies of Poems the author argues that the material properties of poetic texts are meaningful in their own right but often ignored and made invisible in poetry criticism. Through a number of examples ranging from the introduction of print technology in the fifteenth century to late twentieth-century poets such as Adrienne Rich and Seamus Heaney, this study examines the ways in which poems are products of the contemporary state of print technology, legal and social definitions of authors and texts, and culturally and historically determined assumptions about the self and the body. Although indebted to recent innovative work in textual criticism, this book is a pioneering attempt to place the study of poetic texts as material artefacts in a sustained historical narrative.

À propos de l?auteur

The Author: Lennart Nyberg is a senior lecturer in English Literature at the Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden.