Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780915924271)

Structure & Surprise: Engaging Poetic Turns offers a road map for analyzing poetry through examination of poems' structure, rather than their forms or genres. Michael Theune's breakthrough concept encourages students, teachers, and writers to use structure as a tool to see the fundamental affinities between strikingly different kinds of poetry and radically different literary eras. The book includes examination of the mid-course turn and the elegy, as well as the ironic, concessional, emblem, and retrospective-prospective structures, among others. In addition, 14 contemporary poets provide an example of and commentary on their own work.

Author: Michael Theune
ISBN-10: 0915924277
ISBN-13: 9780915924271
Publisher: Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2007
Pages: 264
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 9.06h x 6.01w x 0.59d