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Anne Ferry - By Design - 9780804757997 - V9780804757997
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By Design

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Description for By Design Hardback. By Design is a study of instances of poets enacting literary history by the ways they use and alter key elements of earlier poems, sometimes the work of predecessors, sometimes their own poems, in order to create new designs. Num Pages: 240 pages, 3 figures. BIC Classification: DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 661. Weight in Grams: 454.

By Design is a study in the workings of conscious intention as evidenced in such elements of poetic design as rhyme, choice of title, the revision process, and the reinterpretation of a key word, figure, or narrative situation from earlier poems. Through a series of intensely scrutinized examples drawn from the Renaissance through the twentieth century, Anne Ferry celebrates the ever-changing vitality of the act of writing poems within the constraints, pressures, and urgings of history. In every instance, something startlingly and significantly new takes place because of the high degree of conscious awareness with which such poets as Sidney, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804757997
SKU
V9780804757997
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About Anne Ferry
Anne Ferry, who died in 2006, was Professor of English Emerita at Boston College and the author of seven previous books, including The Title to the Poem (Stanford, 1996) , which won the Phi Beta Kappa's Christian Gauss Award for best book in the Humanities in the year of its publication. In 2003 she was elected to the American Academy ... Read more

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