Includes bibliographical references (pages 178-183) and index.
Contents
1. Classical Precedents and Contemporary Multimodality -- 2. Poetry in Multimodal Presentations -- 3. The forms and functions of rhythm in poetry: from metrical to free verse -- 4. Imagery in Poetry: Implicit and Explicit -- 5. The Framing of a Poem -- 6. The Basis of a New Poetics -- 7. Implications for Poetics -- 8. A Further Look at the Imaginative and Fictive -- 9. What Part Do Rhetoric and Politics Play in the Relationship Between Multimodality and Poetics? -- 10. A New Approach to Literary Study? -- 11. Poetry, Writing Process and the New Poetics -- 12. Implications for Multimodality and Learning Theory.