Poem as Icon: A Study in Aesthetic Cognition

by Margaret H Freeman

Book Overview

Poetry is the most complex and intricate of human language used across all languages and cultures. Its relation to the worlds of human experience has perplexed writers and readers for centuries, as has the question of evaluation and judgment: what makes a poem "work" and endure.

The Poem as Icon focuses on the art of poetry to explore its nature and function: not interpretation but experience; not what poetry means but what it does. Using both...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190080418
• ISBN13: 9780190080419
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"