Author: Don Bialostosky
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822982358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
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Approaching poems as utterances designed and packaged for pleasurable reanimation, How to Play a Poem leads readers through a course that uses our common experience of language to bring poems to life. It mobilizes the speech genres we acquire in our everyday exchanges to identify "signs of life" in poetic texts that can guide our co-creation of tone. How to Play a Poem draws on ideas from the Bakhtin School, usually associated with fiction rather than poetry, to construct a user-friendly practice of close reading as an alternative to the New Critical formalism that still shapes much of teaching and alienates many readers. It sets aside stock questions about connotation and symbolism to guide the playing out of dynamic relations among the human parties to poetic utterances, as we would play a dramatic script or musical score. How to Play a Poem addresses critics ready to abandon New Criticism, teachers eager to rethink poetry, readers eager to enjoy it, and students willing to give it a chance, inviting them to discover a lively and enlivening way to animate familiar and unfamiliar poems.
Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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"The Dreaming of the Bones" was first published in 1919 and performed in 1931, it was one of the plays that comprised Yeats' "Four Plays for Dancers." Written in the Japanese Noh tradition, performed with masks, the play reflects on a belief that the dead may dream back.
Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Shannon : Irish University Press
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Author: John Masefield
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 168
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Author: John Masefield
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: The Reduced Shakespeare Co.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0763698741
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Learn about all of Shakespeare's plays in one book! Read about William Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and poems as you never have before in an entertaining pop-up book collaboration between the internationally known comedy troupe the Reduced Shakespeare Company and best-selling illustrator Jennie Maizels. Featuring five interactive spreads filled with dramatic pop-ups, fun foldouts, hilarious summaries, and fascinating commentaries, this is the perfect introduction to one of the world’s greatest playwrights and his enduring works.
Author: Douglas Kearney
Publisher: Wave Books
ISBN: 1950268624
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY Eschewing series and performative typography, Douglas Kearney’s Sho aims to hit crooked licks with straight-seeming sticks. Navigating the complex penetrability of language, these poems are sonic in their espousal of Black vernacular traditions, while examining histories, pop culture, myth, and folklore. Both dazzling and devastating, Sho is a genius work of literary precision, wordplay, farce, and critical irony. In his “stove-like imagination,” Kearney has concocted poems that destabilize the spectacle, leaving looky-loos with an important uncertainty about the intersection between violence and entertainment.
Author: John Masefield
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781331067375
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 162
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Excerpt from A Poem and Two Plays Rosas There was an old lord in the Argentine, Named Rosas, of the oldest blood in Spain; His wife was the proud last of a proud line, She ruled his house for him and farmed his plain: They had one child, a tameless boy called John, Who was a little lad a century gone. This little boy, the Rosas' only child, Was not like other children of his age, His body seemed a trap to something wild That bit the trap-bars bloody in his rage. He had mad eyes which glittered and were grim; Even as a child men were afraid of him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063032511
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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A new book of poetry from internationally acclaimed, award-winning and bestselling author Margaret Atwood In Dearly, Margaret Atwood’s first collection of poetry in over a decade, Atwood addresses themes such as love, loss, the passage of time, the nature of nature and - zombies. Her new poetry is introspective and personal in tone, but wide-ranging in topic. In poem after poem, she casts her unique imagination and unyielding, observant eye over the landscape of a life carefully and intuitively lived. While many are familiar with Margaret Atwood’s fiction—including her groundbreaking and bestselling novels The Handmaid’s Tale, The Testaments, Oryx and Crake, among others—she has, from the beginning of her career, been one of our most significant contemporary poets. And she is one of the very few writers equally accomplished in fiction and poetry. This collection is a stunning achievement that will be appreciated by fans of her novels and poetry readers alike.
Author: S. Viswanathan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521225477
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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A balanced critique of the reading of Shakespeare's plays as dramatic poems.
