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Silence and Sound: Essays on Poetics from the Eighteenth Century

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This work demonstrates that reading poems silent and aloud involves two separate dimensions of understanding, and that unless we accept that silent poetics and spoken performance create tensions and ambiguities that can only be resolved by the readers' control of both experiences, we will perpetuate an inaccurate perception of how poetry works.

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Silence and Sound: Essays on Poetics from the Eighteenth Century 1992, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

ISBN-13: 9780838634356

Hardcover