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  title info:
    title: Difficulty in Poetry
    sub title: A Stylistic Model
  name:
    name part: Castiglione, Davide.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 386 p. 25 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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 on its range of potential effects. Its eight chapters are organised into two thematic parts. The first traces the history of difficulty, surveys its main scholarly traditions, addresses related themes - from elitism to obscurity, from abstraction to intentionality - and introduces a wide array of analytical tools from literary theory and cognitive psychology. These tools are then consistently applied in the second part, which includes several extended analyses of poems by canonical modernists such as Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane, alongside those of postmodernist innovators such as Geoffrey Hill, Susan Howe and Charles Bernstein, among others. This innovative work will provide fresh insights and approaches for scholars of stylistics, literary studies, cognitive poetics and psychology. .
  table of contents: Introduction -- Part I. Theorising poetic difficulty -- Chapter 1. Approaches and issues -- Chapter 2. Semantics and poetic meaning -- Chapter 3. Linguistic indicators of difficulty -- Chapter 4. Readerly indicators of difficulty -- Chapter 5. A new stylistic model -- Part II. Analysing poetic difficulty -- Chapter 6. Geoffrey Hill -- Chapter 7. Ezra Pound -- Chapter 8. Wallace Stevens -- Chapter 9. Jeremy H. Prynne -- Chapter 10. Susan Howe -- Chapter 11. Mark Strand (the accessible poem) -- Chapter 12. Towards a typology of difficulty in poetry -- Conclusion.
  note: by Davide Castiglione.
  subject:
    topic: Language and languages-Style
  subject:
    topic: Poetry
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive psychology
  subject:
    topic: Literature-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philology
  subject:
    topic: Linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Psycholinguistics
  subject:
    topic: Stylistics
  subject:
    topic: Poetry and Poetics
  subject:
    topic: Cognitive Psychology
  subject:
    topic: Literary Theory
  subject:
    topic: Language and Literature
  subject:
    topic: Psycholinguistics
  classification: P301-P301.5
  classification: 808
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319970011
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97001-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 181012
    record change date: 20191220131254.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-97001-1