In this Book
- Windows and Doors: A Poet Reads Literary Theory
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: University of Michigan Press
- Series: Poets on Poetry
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Front-Loading Syntax
- pp. 19-41
- A Sexy New Animal: The DNA of the Prose Poem
- pp. 134-156
- Performance of the Lyric “I”
- pp. 173-195
Additional Information
ISBN
9780472120536
Related ISBN(s)
9780472035991
MARC Record
OCLC
889644716
Pages
209
Launched on MUSE
2014-08-29
Language
English
Open Access
No