Experiencing Poetry: A Guidebook to Psychopoetics

by Willie van Peer, Anna Chesnokova, Prof Anna Chesnokova

Book Overview

How do we experience poetry as readers? What is it in the text that provokes particular reactions, and how can we methodologically reveal these effects?

Introducing an evidence-based approach to poetics, this book explores the psychological effects of poetic form and content, with an emphasis on how real readers respond to and experience poetry. Engaging with texts from diverse cultural and historical settings, it covers the basics of stylistic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350248029
• ISBN13: 9781350248021
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"