Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word

Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word

Volumn , Issue , 1998, Pages 1-400

  Bernstein, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Language and performance; Modern poetry; Performance poetry; Postmodern poetry; Reading poetry; Sound of poetry

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945662800     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195109924.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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