Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres

by Jahan Ramazani

Book Overview

What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system--"suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse," in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in Poetry and Its... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022608356X
• ISBN13: 9780226083568
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"