Offense of Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Hazard Adams is professor emeritus of comparative literature! University of Washington! and founder and honorary senior fellow of the School of Criticism and Theory. His "Critical Theory since Plato" has served as a standard text in the field for more than three decades. Klappentext There is something offensive about poetry! judging by the number of attacks on it and defences of it. The author argues that poetry exists to offend - not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing view of what language is for. He also specifies four poetic offences - gesture! drama! fiction! and trope. Zusammenfassung There is something offensive about poetry! judging by the number of attacks on it and defences of it. The author argues that poetry exists to offend - not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing view of what language is for. He also specifies four poetic offences - gesture! drama! fiction! and trope.

Product details

• Authors: Hazard Adams
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.10.2007
• EAN: 9780295987422
• ISBN: 978-0-295-98742-2
• No. of pages: 284
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Robert B. Heilman Book; Robert B. Heilman Book; The Offense of Poetry
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies