The written poem : semiotic conventions from old to modern English. / Rosemary Huisman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huisman, Rosemary, 1941- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, England ; New York, New York : Cassell, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text discusses the visual and graphic conventions in contemporary poetry in English. It defines contemporary poetry and its historical construction as a ""seen object"" and uses literary and social theory of the 1990's to facilitate the study. In examining how a poem is recognized, the interpretive conventions for reading it and how the special arrangement on the page is meaningful for contemporary poetry, the text takes examples from individual poems. There is also a focus on changes in manuscript conventions from Old to Middle English poetry and the change from a social to a personal

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Contemporary Poetry; Chapter 1 Poetic Discourse and Genre; Chapter 2 The Seen Poem and Its Semiosis; Chapter 3 The Semiotic of Art and Music; Chapter 4 The Semiotic of the Body; Chapter 5 The Semiotic of Language; Part Two: From Old English to Contemporary Poetry; Chapter 6 The Origin of the English Line, 1100-1300; Chapter 7 The Transition to a Literate Subject, 1500-1800; Chapter 8 The Reading Subject and the Writing Subject, 1800-1990; Epilogue: The Postmodern Subject and the New Media Poem; Bibliography; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-177) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786611291563

9781281291561

1281291560

9781847140968

1847140963

OCLC:

290572132