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Overview"Dealing with poetry is frequently problematic for the university teacher and student: although undergraduates are usually responsive to discussions about drama and prose, poetry often silences the classroom. Unless a poem provides references easily applicable to their own lives, many students feel they can't relate to the piece and are stymied. In particular, allegorical poetry produces tensions among the desire to find the meanings of the poet's symbolism, the fear of voicing a """"wrong"""" interpretation, and a natural objection to perceived restrictions on interpretive freedom. Poetry, Symbol, and Allegory enses that dilemma by providing a historical overview of theories of interpretation as they apply to symbol and allegory in poetry, thereby reclaiming valuable and useful methods of analyzing poems. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, Simon Brittan moves from classical theory to the lesser-known medieval exegetical theories of such notables as Augustine, Aquinas, and Origen; addresses theory pertaining to Renaissance Italy and Dante, English theory of the Middle Ages, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the Romantic period; and concludes by weighing the poetry of T. E. Hulme, T. S. Eliot, and Ezra. Pound on the larger historical scale of literary theory. By acknowledging interpretive theories of the past, Brittan provides a proper historical frame of reference in which today's student can better understand figurative language in poetry." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Simon BrittanPublisher: University of Virginia Press Imprint: University of Virginia Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.485kg ISBN: 9780813921563ISBN 10: 0813921562 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 31 March 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsPoetry, Symbol, and Allegory offers an elegantly written and bracingly wide-ranging introduction to a crucial strand of the history of literary interpretation. Brittan has written a book that we need. -Adam Parkes, University of Georgia Poetry, Symbol, and Allegory offers an elegantly written and bracingly wide-ranging introduction to a crucial strand of the history of literary interpretation. Brittan has written a book that we need.-Adam Parkes, University of Georgia Author InformationSimon Brittan is an independent scholar who divides his time between England and Michigan. He has taught at the University of East Anglia and in the Department for Continuing Education at the University of Oxford and written for Renaissance Forum, the Times Literary Supplement, and Gravesiana. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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