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Prose Poetry : An Introduction / Paul Hetherington, Cassandra Atherton.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691212135
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 821.009 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1059.P76 H48 2020
  • PR1195.P74
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART 1 BEGINNINGS -- CHAPTER 1 Introducing the Prose Poem -- CHAPTER 2 The Prose Poem’s Post-Romantic Inheritance -- CHAPTER 3 Prose Poetry, Rhythm, and the City -- PART 2 AGAINST CONVENTION -- CHAPTER 4 Ideas of Open Form and Closure in Prose Poetry -- CHAPTER 5 Neo-Surrealism within the Prose Poetry Tradition -- CHAPTER 6 Prose Poetry and TimeSpace -- PART 3 METHODS AND CONTEXTS -- CHAPTER 7 The Image and Memory in Reading Prose Poetry -- CHAPTER 8 Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Prose Poem -- CHAPTER 9 Women and Prose Poetry -- CHAPTER 10 Prose Poetry and the Very Short Form -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genreProse Poetry is the first book of its kind—an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose poetry, an increasingly important and popular literary form that is still too little understood and appreciated. Poets and scholars Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton introduce prose poetry’s key characteristics, chart its evolution from the nineteenth century to the present, and discuss many historical and contemporary prose poems that both demonstrate their great diversity around the Anglophone world and show why they represent some of today’s most inventive writing.A prose poem looks like prose but reads like poetry: it lacks the line breaks of other poetic forms but employs poetic techniques, such as internal rhyme, repetition, and compression. Prose Poetry explains how this form opens new spaces for writers to create riveting works that reshape the resources of prose while redefining the poetic. Discussing prose poetry’ s precursors, including William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman, and prose poets such as Charles Simic, Russell Edson, Lydia Davis, and Claudia Rankine, the book pays equal attention to male and female prose poets, documenting women’s essential but frequently unacknowledged contributions to the genre.Revealing how prose poetry tests boundaries and challenges conventions to open up new imaginative vistas, this is an essential book for all readers, students, teachers, and writers of prose poetry.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- PART 1 BEGINNINGS -- CHAPTER 1 Introducing the Prose Poem -- CHAPTER 2 The Prose Poem’s Post-Romantic Inheritance -- CHAPTER 3 Prose Poetry, Rhythm, and the City -- PART 2 AGAINST CONVENTION -- CHAPTER 4 Ideas of Open Form and Closure in Prose Poetry -- CHAPTER 5 Neo-Surrealism within the Prose Poetry Tradition -- CHAPTER 6 Prose Poetry and TimeSpace -- PART 3 METHODS AND CONTEXTS -- CHAPTER 7 The Image and Memory in Reading Prose Poetry -- CHAPTER 8 Metaphor, Metonymy, and the Prose Poem -- CHAPTER 9 Women and Prose Poetry -- CHAPTER 10 Prose Poetry and the Very Short Form -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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An engaging and authoritative introduction to an increasingly important and popular literary genreProse Poetry is the first book of its kind—an engaging and authoritative introduction to the history, development, and features of English-language prose poetry, an increasingly important and popular literary form that is still too little understood and appreciated. Poets and scholars Paul Hetherington and Cassandra Atherton introduce prose poetry’s key characteristics, chart its evolution from the nineteenth century to the present, and discuss many historical and contemporary prose poems that both demonstrate their great diversity around the Anglophone world and show why they represent some of today’s most inventive writing.A prose poem looks like prose but reads like poetry: it lacks the line breaks of other poetic forms but employs poetic techniques, such as internal rhyme, repetition, and compression. Prose Poetry explains how this form opens new spaces for writers to create riveting works that reshape the resources of prose while redefining the poetic. Discussing prose poetry’ s precursors, including William Wordsworth and Walt Whitman, and prose poets such as Charles Simic, Russell Edson, Lydia Davis, and Claudia Rankine, the book pays equal attention to male and female prose poets, documenting women’s essential but frequently unacknowledged contributions to the genre.Revealing how prose poetry tests boundaries and challenges conventions to open up new imaginative vistas, this is an essential book for all readers, students, teachers, and writers of prose poetry.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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