The Written Poem: Semiotic Conventions from Old to Modern English

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A&C Black, 1 jan 1998 - 184 pagina's
This text discusses the visual and graphic conventions in contemporary poetry in English. It defines contemporary poetry and its historical construction as a 'seen object' and uses literary and social theory of the 1990s to facilitate the study. In examining how a poem is recognized, the interpretive conventions for reading it, and how the spacial arrangement on the page is meaningful for contemporary poetry, the text takes examples from individual poems. There is also a focus on changes in manuscript conventions from Old to Middle English poetry and the change from a social to a personal understanding of poetic meaning from the late 18th through the 19th century.

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Poetic Discourse and Genre
7
The Seen Poem and Its Semiosis
33
The Semiotic of Art and Music
41
The Semiotic of the Body
58
The Semiotic of Language
70
The Origin of the English Line 11001300
99
The Reading Subject and the Writing
143
Epilogue The Postmodern Subject and
160
Bibliography
167
Index
179
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