The Winnowing Fan: Verse-Essays in Creative Criticism

by Christopher Norris

Book Overview

This path-breaking book explores different ways in which writing about poetry can deepen and extend our critical engagement by deploying creatively the manifold resources of poetic language and form. Through a series of verse-essays, reflective monologues, and inventive variations on topics in literary theory The Winnowing Fan makes a strong case for revising received ideas about the scope and limits of criticism.
Norris's poems traverse...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474236324
• ISBN13: 9781474236324
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.9"