Windows and Doors: a Poet Reads Literary Theory

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"Windows and Doors is a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Sajé's nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of poetry while also making an argument about poetic language and ideology. Foundational topics--diction, syntax, rhythm, surprise, figurative language, narrative, genre, book design, and performance--are …

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Full title :Windows and Doors : a Poet Reads Literary Theory.

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"Windows and Doors is a poetry handbook that places poststructuralist and postmodern ways of thinking alongside formalist modes, making explicit points of overlap and tension that are usually tacit. Each of Natasha Sajé's nine essays addresses a topic of central concern to readers and writers of poetry while also making an argument about poetic language and ideology. Foundational topics--diction, syntax, rhythm, surprise, figurative language, narrative, genre, book design, and performance--are explained through the lenses of theory, history, and philosophy and illuminated through vibrant examples from the works of numerous contemporary American poets."--Publisher's description.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2014

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Michigan Press
Language:eng
Publication Date:2014

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 195 pages ; : 21 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781322079110, 1322079110, 0472035991, 9780472035991
oclc:ocn912240527
LC Classification:PN1031
Dewey Decimal:808.1

Roots in our throats: a case for using etymology -- Front-loading syntax -- Rhythm and repetition in free verse, or, the poet as witch -- Gertrude Stein's granddaughters: a reading of surprise -- Metonymy, the neglected (but necessary) trope -- "Why Must It Always End This Way?" narrative poetry and its (dis)contents -- A sexy new animal: the DNA of the prose poem -- Dynamic design: the structure of books of poems -- Performance of the lyric "I."