What do we mean by ‘voice’ in poetry? In this work, David Nowell Smith teases out the diverse meanings of ‘voice’, from a poem’s soundworld to the rhetorical gestures through which poems speak to us, in order to embark on a philosophical exploration of the concept of voice itself.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Voice in Poetry: Opening up a Concept 1. A Natural Scale 2. Vibration and Difference 3. Turnings of the Breath 4. ‘The Multitudinous Tongue’ 5. Getting the Measure of Voice Bibliography
About the author
David Nowell Smith is Lecturer in Literature at the University of East Anglia. He is also author of Sounding/Silence: Martin Heidegger at the Limits of Poetics (2013).
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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 202 ● ISBN 9781137308238 ● File size 1.0 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan UK ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2015 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 4112556 ● Copy protection Social DRM