Acknowledgements |
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Introduction |
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The stretch in between |
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Serious play |
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4 | (3) |
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7 | (102) |
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9 | (19) |
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12 | (1) |
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Flow theory and committed detachment |
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13 | (2) |
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15 | (2) |
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The concrete versus the abstract |
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17 | (3) |
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`Improv'-ing and journaling |
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20 | (3) |
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23 | (5) |
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28 | (16) |
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Question-and-answer: the beginnings of form |
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29 | (6) |
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The expansion--contraction process |
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35 | (4) |
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39 | (1) |
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39 | (1) |
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39 | (1) |
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40 | (1) |
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Discovering form and structure |
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40 | (4) |
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44 | (15) |
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44 | (2) |
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46 | (1) |
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Assuming the voices of others |
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47 | (3) |
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50 | (2) |
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52 | (7) |
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52 | (3) |
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55 | (1) |
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56 | (1) |
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57 | (2) |
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59 | (11) |
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59 | (2) |
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Romanticism and Modernism: two dominant legacies of style |
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61 | (1) |
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62 | (2) |
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64 | (5) |
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69 | (1) |
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70 | (15) |
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70 | (1) |
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71 | (2) |
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73 | (2) |
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75 | (3) |
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78 | (7) |
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Cultures of Poetry Writing |
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85 | (24) |
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85 | (1) |
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86 | (5) |
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91 | (3) |
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Creating a critical preface |
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94 | (15) |
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96 | (1) |
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Expansion/contraction modes |
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96 | (1) |
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Nuancing and fleshing out |
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97 | (1) |
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Eliminating redundancies and cleaning house |
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98 | (1) |
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99 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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100 | (1) |
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Recursivity or (re) cycling |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (2) |
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104 | (1) |
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105 | (4) |
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109 | (111) |
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111 | (20) |
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Creative-critical consciousness |
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111 | (2) |
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Gaining a sense of tradition |
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113 | (2) |
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115 | (3) |
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Interpreting a cultural sign |
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118 | (2) |
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Semiotics and the poetic self |
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120 | (2) |
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122 | (3) |
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125 | (4) |
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129 | (2) |
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131 | (15) |
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The material realities of poetry |
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131 | (1) |
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Taking inventory of poetic material or `signs' |
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132 | (4) |
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Unpacking the meanings embedded in signs |
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136 | (2) |
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The poetics of history and critical awareness |
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138 | (3) |
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Tapping into literary history |
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141 | (5) |
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146 | (10) |
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146 | (3) |
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149 | (2) |
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151 | (2) |
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153 | (1) |
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The dangerous lack of reason |
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154 | (2) |
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156 | (14) |
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Postmodern irony: the style of our times |
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156 | (1) |
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The past and present of postmodern irony |
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157 | (1) |
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Understanding related forms of irony |
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158 | (2) |
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Stable and unstable irony |
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160 | (2) |
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Prufrock and other observations |
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162 | (2) |
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Irrelevance and irreverence |
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164 | (2) |
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166 | (4) |
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170 | (16) |
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Making the sensational mundane |
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170 | (3) |
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The magical realist approach to subject |
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173 | (4) |
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177 | (5) |
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182 | (4) |
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Cultures of Poetry Writing |
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186 | (34) |
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186 | (2) |
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188 | (5) |
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Creative writing and the university: a brief survey |
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193 | (2) |
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Five reasons to make poetry writing a part of any education |
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195 | (25) |
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202 | (1) |
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202 | (1) |
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Imagining the unimaginable |
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203 | (3) |
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Resurrecting the classics |
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206 | (2) |
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Lexical accretion (or the piling up of similar words) |
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208 | (1) |
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208 | (3) |
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211 | (3) |
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214 | (1) |
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Suspensions and reverberations |
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215 | (1) |
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216 | (1) |
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217 | (3) |
Notes |
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220 | (13) |
Selected Further Reading |
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233 | (2) |
Index |
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