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...
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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 the poem can be shown to actually say, in detail and as a whole, from opening to closure. Based on a series of emails, the book explores a numbe...