How We Experience Modern Verse

Readers follow the movement of blocks of verse across the expanse of the page with what Maurice Merleau-Ponty terms the phenomenal body. This generates the power we need to solve big, collective challenges, such as race, climate change, and inequality.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: The Experience of Modern Verse
Chapter 1: Reading as an Experience of the Psyche
Chapter 2: Reading as an Experience of the Body
Part II: The Psychoactive Mechanisms of Modern Verse
Chapter 3: Polyphony
Chapter 4: Aural Images
Chapter 5: Movement
Part III: The Value of Experiencing Modern Verse
Chapter 6: An Earth of Value
Afterword: Teaching the Experience of Modern Verse

About the author

Eric Purchase is a professional writer for Gartner, Inc., a research and advisory firm, and an independent scholar. Previously he taught writing and literature for a dozen years at various universities. He holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Connecticut. His previous books include Out of Nowhere (1999) and The Future of Reading (2019).

Summary

Readers follow the movement of blocks of verse across the expanse of the page with what Maurice Merleau-Ponty terms the phenomenal body. This generates the power we need to solve big, collective challenges, such as race, climate change, and inequality.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Purchase, Purchase Eric
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032448848
• ISBN: 978-1-032-44884-8
• No. of pages: 182
• Weight: 453 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Poetry / Poems