Difficulty in Poetry A Stylistic Model /

• Main Author: Castiglione, Davide (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Language and languages-Style.; Poetry.; Cognitive psychology.; Literature-Philosophy.; Philology.; Linguistics.; Psycholinguistics.; Stylistics.; Poetry and Poetics.; Cognitive Psychology.; Literary Theory.; Language and Literature.

This book theoretically defines and linguistically analyses the popular notion that poetry is 'difficult' - hard to read, hard to understand, hard to engage with. It is the first work to offer a stylistic and cognitive model that sheds new light on the mechanisms of difficulty, as well as...