The language of contemporary poetry : a framework for poetic analysis / Lesley Jeffries.
Jeffries Lesley, author.
2022
PN1042 .J44 2022
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Title
The language of contemporary poetry : a framework for poetic analysis / Lesley Jeffries.
Author
Jeffries Lesley, author.
ISBN
9783031097492 (electronic bk.)
3031097491 (electronic bk.)
3031097483
9783031097485
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09749-2
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource.
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-09749-2 doi
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PN1042 .J44 2022
Dewey Decimal Classification
808.1
Summary
This book introduces a new way of looking at how poems mean, drawing on the framework first developed in the authors book Critical Stylistics, but applied here to aesthetic more than ideological meaning. The aim is to empower readers of poetry to articulate the features of poetic language that they come across and explain to themselves and others why these features convey the meanings that they do. While this volume focuses on contemporary poets writing in English and mostly based in the UK and Ireland, the framework will work just as well for other eras poetry, as well as for other cultures and languages. Lesley Jeffries is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She has published widely in stylistics, focussing on the style of contemporary poetry and ideology in news reporting and political discourse. She is also co-editor (with Dan Mcintyre) of Babel: The Language Magazine.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Palgrave studies in language, literature and style.
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Chapter 1. Contemporary poetry and textual meaning
Part 1: Core Features Of Textual Meaning
Chapter 2. Naming and Describing: people, places and things in poems
Chapter 3. Representing processes: actions, states and events in poetry
Chapter 4. Prioritising: Subordination and information structure in poems
Chapter 5. Representing time, space and society: constructing the world of the poem
Part 2: Intermittent Features Of Textual Meaning
Chapter 6. Equating and Contrasting: Constructing equivalence and opposition in poems
Chapter 7. Enumerating and Exemplifying: Lists and open meaning in poems
Chapter 8. Negating: Poetic construction of what is not
Chapter 9. Hypothesising: Possible Worlds, hypothetical scenarios and wish fulfilment in poems
Chapter 10. Alluding: Implying and Assuming in poems
Chapter 11. Presenting others speech and thought: Multiple voices in poems
Chapter 12. Evoking: experiencing the poems world
Part Three: Conclusions
Chapter 13. Putting it all together: Integrated analysis of poems
Chapter 14. Textual meaning, linguistic theory and the stylistics of poetry.

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