Questions of possibility [[electronic resource] ] : contemporary poetry and poetic form / / David Caplan
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| Autore: |
Caplan David <1969->
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| Titolo: |
Questions of possibility [[electronic resource] ] : contemporary poetry and poetic form / / David Caplan
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, c2005 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (176 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 811/.509 |
| Soggetto topico: | American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism |
| American poetry - 21st century - History and criticism | |
| English language - Versification | |
| Literary form | |
| Poetics | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction: On Claimed Verse Forms; 1. "The Age of the Sestina"; 2. "In that Thicket of Bitter Roots": The Ghazal in America; 3. When a Form Comes Out of the Closet; 4. Why Not the Heroic Couplet?; 5. On the Contemporary Ballad; Conclusion: Prosody after the Poetry Wars; Notes; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Examines the particular forms that contemporary American poets favor and those they neglect. The poets' choices reveal both their ambitions and their limitations, the possibilities they discover, and the traditions they find unimaginable. The poetic forms discussed include: the sestina, ghazal, love sonnet, ballad, and heroic couplet. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Questions of possibility |
| ISBN: | 0-19-971840-7 |
| 0-19-531325-9 | |
| 0-19-534700-5 | |
| 1-280-53447-8 | |
| 1-4237-5663-0 | |
| 1-60256-903-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910457514103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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