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27%OFFCatherine Robson - Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem - 9780691163376 - V9780691163376
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Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem

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Description for Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, 4 halftones. 1 table. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1KBB; DSA; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 468.
Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691163376
SKU
V9780691163376
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About Catherine Robson
Catherine Robson is is professor of English at New York University. She is the author of Men in Wonderland: The Lost Girlhood of the Victorian Gentleman (Princeton).

Reviews for Heart Beats: Everyday Life and the Memorized Poem
Winner of the 2013 NAVSA Best Book of the Year Award, North American Victorian Studies Association "It's tempting to sentimentalize an era in which poetry
memorized, recited poetry
held so prominent a place in the culture. But its once-substantial role turns out to be a mixed and complicated tale, as thoroughly chronicled [by] Catherine Robson."
Brad Leithauser, NewYorker.com "Catherine Robson's extraordinary book, a ... Read more

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