Books in the Studies in Literary Criticism and Theory series

Explodes the near-universal belief that parody is a copycat genre or that it consists of a collection of trivial and derivative forms. This title is defined in terms of three major variations that bang, bind, and blend artistic conventions into contrasting pairings, the results of which are upheavals of existing conventions.

Why do readers report being powerfully affected by great poetry? What happens to you when we read a poem? This book offers a fresh way of reading poems by treating poems as dynamic - essentially as fields of energy. It lays out a theory of poetic language and applies that theory to a range of beloved works by, among others.