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Language Recreated: Seventeenth-Century Metaphorists and the Act of Metaphor

Language Recreated: Seventeenth-Century Metaphorists and the Act of Metaphor

Skulsky, Harold

Paperback

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0820338583
ISBN13: 9780820338583
Publisher: Univ Of Georgia Pr
Published: Jun 15 2012
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A searching contribution to the study of what gurative language is and how it works, this book is a guide to the sophisticated and powerful artistry of the seventeenth-century English poets who have come to be known by the misleading name of Metaphysicals. Harold Skulsky argues that Metaphorists is the more apt label. After exploring the dramatic and transactional theory of figurative language that these poets owe to the traditions they share, Skulsky gives close and carefully argued readings of their major poems. We watch metaphor being enacted rather than made in a high-stakes game of cue and response between writer and reader, a game sustained by a network of mutual understandings. In effect, Skulsky provides a reader-friendly manual of the skills we need to be players.

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