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...

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.