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Institute of Technology
The resistance to poetry /
Poems convey knowledge, argues Longenbach, but do so in forms that work against their being facile vehicles for the efficient transmission of knowledge. This self-resistance is the source of the reader's pleasure: we read poetry not to escape difficulty but to embrace it.
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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2004.
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