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Apostrophe, or the Lyric Art of Turning Away
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Smith, Julie R. |
| Copyright Year | 2007 |
| Abstract | Lyric, when it works, works on its audience in a peculiar way. Its effects are not exactly "rhetorical." And so when I claim (as I do in this essay) that where there is lyric there is apostrophe, a corollary of my claim is that apostrophe names not a codified rhetorical device or trope, but a demand that lyric poems lay upon their readers.2 The English poet Geoffrey Hill, mulling over the problem of "poetic voice" in a 1981 interview on BBC Radio, made this remark: |
| Starting Page | 411 |
| Ending Page | 437 |
| Page Count | 27 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1353/tsl.2007.0020 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://academic.macewan.ca/smithj105/files/2013/05/Apostrophe-or-the-Lyric-Art-of-Turning-Away-J.-Mark-Smith.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1353/tsl.2007.0020 |
| Volume Number | 49 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
