Sinopsis
The title of a poem is often seen as no more than a convenient means of reference - a way of cataloguing, or of finding the work in a list of contents. But in shorter lyric poems the title can often be as long as a line of verse, and as allusive. This is a theoretical, critical, and historical exploration of the traditions for titling shorter poems by British and American poets from the beginnings of printing in the fifteenth century to the present day. Ferry offers a thorough introduction to the history of conventions governing the choice of titles, and pursues the origin and development of specific examples. She shows the myriad ways in which a title influences our reading of the poem, illuminating and complicating our understanding of it, its place in the book in which it first appeared, and the poet who wrote it.
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Anne Ferry has taught at Hunter, Wellesley, and Boston Colleges and at Harvard University.
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The Title to the Poem is a theoretical, critical, and historical exploration of the traditions for titling shorter poems by British and American poets from the beginnings of printing to the present. The first six chapters are distinguished according to the nature of the question a reader might ask about the poem, which the title purports to answer. Who gives the title? Who has the title? Who "says" the poem? Who "hears" the poem? What genre does the poem belong to? What is the poem "about"? There are complex relationships between what titles purport to tell and what they actually tell, and this is true not only of titles so worded that they demand interpretation, but also of those that appear straightforward. Though the choice of examples aims at range and variety, certain British and American poets have been exceptionally influential in their contributions to the course of titling in English, so their work receives special and repeated attention here. These poets have not only been unusually innovative in modifying traditional title forms or inventing new ones, but have brought into focus fundamental issues of titling by the nature of their experiments. They are Jonson, Wordsworth, Browning, Whitman, Hardy, Frost, Williams, Stevens, Auden, and, in our time, Ashbery.
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The Title to the Poem
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Stanford University Press, 1996
ISBN 10: 0804726108
ISBN 13: 9780804726108
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Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
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