On Voice in Poetry [electronic resource] : The Work of Animation /
Smith, David Nowell.author.
What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us, in order to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of voice itself.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction Voice in Poetry: Opening up a Concept; 1 A Natural Scale; 2 Vibration and Difference; 3 Turnings of the Breath; 4 'The Multitudinous Tongue'; 5 Getting the Measure of Voice; Notes; Bibliography; Author Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What do we mean by 'voice' in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of 'voice', from a poem's soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us, in order to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of voice itself.
Poetry.
European literature.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Language and languages-Style.
Poetry and Poetics.
European Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Stylistics.