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The book of forms : a handbook of poetics / Lewis Turco.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Turco, Lewis.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetics.
- Versification.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 337 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Hanover ; London : University Press of New England, [2000]
- Summary:
- Since 1968 Lewis Turco's Book of Forms has been a staple in the libraries of writers, teachers, poets, and others who care about the craft of poetry. The 160-page first edition was followed in 1986 by the 292-page New Book of Forms, reprinted six times and one of UPNE's Top Ten Best Sellers. Now Turco has expanded and updated his classic again, adding many new forms, including the ghazal, rubliw, double dactyl, Clerihew, amphigory, backwoods boast, and quaternion. Twenty percent larger than before, it now includes six in-depth prosodic essays and an entirely new discussion of the rules of scansion. The Elements of Poetry section has been reorganized in three genres: Dramatic, Lyric, and Narrative. Many new poems from English and American literature have been added or substituted in order to provide clear examples of all terms and forms found in the book.
- Contents:
- Part I. The Elements of Poetry
- Modes of Writing 4
- The Levels of Poetry 4
- Prosody 5
- The Typographical Level 6
- The Sonic Level 9
- Prose Poetry 9
- Isoverbal Prosody 15
- Parenthetical Prosody 16
- Syllabic Prosody 20
- Accentual Prosody 21
- Accentual-Syllabic Prosody 32
- The Sensory Level 55
- Descriptions and Similes 55
- Metaphors 61
- Rhetorical Tropes 67
- The Ideational Level 68
- Part III. Traditional Verse Forms
- Dramatic Poetry 109
- Lyric Poetry 120
- Narrative Poetry 286.
- Notes:
- "A companion volume to 'The Book of Literary Terms'."--Cover.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [303]-307) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1584650222
- 1584650419
- OCLC:
- 41944634
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