Close Listening - Poetry and the Performed Word

Zusatztext break new ground in complex and highly useful ways. Klappentext Close Listening brings together 17 strikingly original essays! commissioned especially for this volume! on the reading of poetry! the sound of poetry! and the visual performance of poetry. While the performance of poetry is as old as poetry itself! critical attention to modern and postmodern poetry performance has been negligible. This collection opens new avenues for the critical discussion of the sound and performance of poetry! and offers an indispensablecritical base for understanding language in and as performance. Zusammenfassung Contains 17 original essays, commissioned for this volume, on the reading of poetry, the sound of poetry, and the visual performance of poetry. Opens new avenues for the critical discussion of the sound and performance of poetry, and offers a critical base for understanding language and its performance.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Bernstein, Charles (David Gray Professor of Poetry Bernstein
• Assisted by: Charles Bernstein (Editor), Bernstein Charles (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.06.1998
• EAN: 9780195109917
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510991-7
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Philosophy of Language, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets