Twentieth-Century Poetry: From Text to Context

by Peter Verdonk (Editor)

Overview

This textbook provides a thought-provoking introduction to the practice of literary stylistics. It is based on extensive teaching experience, and makes new insights from linguistic and literary scholarship accessible to students in their daily practice of reading, analysing and evaluating literary texts.
The twelve chapters, written by experts in the field, provide a firm foundation for the development of language and context-based literary criticism. The book allows students to increase their creative responsiveness to the interplay between text and context, and between language and social situation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415058636
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/23/1993
Series:	Interface
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

The editor, Peter Verdonk, is a Reader in English at the University of Amsterdam.

Table of Contents

Series editor’s introduction Introduction 1 To analyse a poem stylistically: ‘To Paint a Water Lily’ by Ted Hughes 2 Person to person: relationships in the poetry of Tony Harrison 3 Approaching Hill’s ‘Of Commerce and Society’ through lexis 4 The lyrical game: C. Day Lewis’s ‘Last Words’ 5 Between languages: grammar and lexis in Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Oxen’ 6 The auditory imagination and the music of poetry 7 Teach yourself ‘rhetoric’: an analysis of Philip Larkin’s ‘Church Going’ 8 (Non)-communication in the park 9 Poetry and public life: a contextualized reading of Seamus Heaney’s ‘Punishment’ 10 The difficult style of The Waste Land: a literary–pragmatic perspective on modernist poetry 11 The poem and occasion 12 ‘Yo soy la Malinche’: Chicana writers and the poetics of ethnonationalism