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Poetry as Persuasion
Carl Dennis
出版
University of Georgia Press
, 2001
主題
Literary Criticism / Poetry
Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN
0820322482
9780820322483
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gG34Z3z59jsC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Focusing on the relation of the poet to the reader, Carl Dennis proposes that poems are acts of persuasion and that the strength of a poem's speaker is the key to winning the reader's sympathetic attention. Dennis identifies the qualities of passion, discrimination, and inclusiveness as essential in creating a compelling speaker. This emphasis on character leads to fresh discussions of point of view, irony, myth, and genre. Each subject is developed through careful readings of a wide variety of poets--from Whitman and Dickinson to contemporaries. Lucidly written,
Poetry as Persuasion
offers both inspiration and important advice for practicing poets, and at the same time provides anyone with an interest in poetry a fresh understanding of its appeal.