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Rosemary Huisman.
The Written Poem: Semiotic Conventions from Old to Modern English.
Published London: Cassell, 1998.
ISBN 0304339997;
ISBN-13: 9780304339990.
Binding: hardback, perfect bound; printed boards, issued without a dustjacket.
Size: 157x240x18mm.
Page count: viii,184pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good.


This item £9.50
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[Publisher’s price £90.00]
Weight without packaging: 412g.

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Emphasis largely modern.

Contents: Poetic discourse & genre; The seen poem & its semiosis; Semiotic of art & music; Semiotic of the body; Semiotic of language; Origin of the English line, 1100-1300; Transition to a literate subject, 1500-1800; The reading subject & the writing subject, 1800-1900; The postmodern subject & the new media poem.


See also | Poetry |

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