The Craft of Poetry: Dialogues on Minimal Interpretation

by Derek Attridge and Henry Staten

Book Overview

This book presents an innovative format for poetry criticism that its authors call "dialogical poetics." This approach shows that readings of poems, which in academic literary criticism often look like a product of settled knowledge, are in reality a continual negotiation between readers. But Derek Attridge and Henry Staten agree to rein in their own interpretive ingenuity and "minimally interpret" poems - reading them with careful regard for what...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138850071
• ISBN13: 9781138850071
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"