Adams returns to the idea that poetry is challenging--not just in the sense of "difficult," but in that it continually "challenges us to confront and pass through offense to active mental involvement." The book ranges across the landscape of traditional literary criticism, from Plato and Aristotle to Blake, Yeats, and Seamus Heaney, ending on a light note to examine the "great bad poetry" of William McGonnagall. It contains insights for the fields of intellectual history and the philosophy of aesthetics as well as literary ...
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Adams returns to the idea that poetry is challenging--not just in the sense of "difficult," but in that it continually "challenges us to confront and pass through offense to active mental involvement." The book ranges across the landscape of traditional literary criticism, from Plato and Aristotle to Blake, Yeats, and Seamus Heaney, ending on a light note to examine the "great bad poetry" of William McGonnagall. It contains insights for the fields of intellectual history and the philosophy of aesthetics as well as literary criticism. Adams is professor emeritus of comparative literature, University of Washington.
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New. There is something offensive about poetry, judging by the number of attacks on it and defences of it. The author argues that poetry exists to offend-not through its subject matter but through the challenges it presents to the prevailing view of what language is for. He also specifies four poetic offences-gesture, drama, fiction, and trope. Series: Robert B Heilman Books. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 154 x 232 x 20. Weight in Grams: 384. 2007. Paperback.....We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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