On Voice in Poetry

The Work of Animation

• Author(s): David Nowell Smith,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 202
• ISBN_10: 1137308230
  ISBN_13: 9781137308238
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / European / General , Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory , Social Science / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / General , Literary Criticism / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... 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.