The written poem : semiotic conventions from Old to modern English

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Label

The written poem : semiotic conventions from Old to modern English

Title remainder

semiotic conventions from Old to modern English

Statement of responsibility

Rosemary Huisman

Creator

• Huisman, Rosemary, 1941-

Subject

• American poetry -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
• Commonwealth poetry (English) -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Dichtkunst
• Electronic books
• English language -- Old English | Versification
• English language -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- Versification
• English language -- Written English
• English language -- Written English
• English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Theory, etc
• 450-1999
• Literary form
• Literary form
• POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
• Poetics
• Poetics
• Semiotics and literature
• Semiotics and literature
• Semiotiek
• English poetry -- Old English, ca. 450-1100 -- History and criticism | Theory, etc

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

This text discusses the visual and graphic conventions in contemporary poetry in English. It defines contemporary poetry and its historical construction as a ""seen object"" and uses literary and social theory of the 1990s to facilitate the study. In examining how a poem is recognized, the interpretive conventions for reading it and how the spacial arrangement on the page is meaningful for contemporary poetry, the text takes examples from individual poems. There is also a focus on changes in manuscript conventions from Old to Middle English poetry and the change from a social to a personal und

Cataloging source

CaPaEBR

Dewey number

821.009

Index

index present

Language note

English

LC call number

PR502

LC item number

.H75 1998eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography