Fishing by Obstinate Isles

Fishing by Obstinate Isles PDF Author: Keith Tuma
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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This text investigates modern British poetry and the death of that poetry in American critical circles. It explores the relations of British and American poetries, challenging reductive American views of British poetry.

Fishing by Obstinate Isles

Fishing by Obstinate Isles PDF Author: Keith Tuma
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
This text investigates modern British poetry and the death of that poetry in American critical circles. It explores the relations of British and American poetries, challenging reductive American views of British poetry.

Fishing by Obstinate Isles

Fishing by Obstinate Isles PDF Author: Keith Tuma
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810116238
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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Book Description
This text investigates modern British poetry and the death of that poetry in American critical circles. It explores the relations of British and American poetries, challenging reductive American views of British poetry.

A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry

A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry PDF Author: Nigel Alderman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118646940
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century Introduces students to figures including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Andrew Motion Takes an integrative approach, emphasizing the complex negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and pulling together competing tendencies and positions Written by critics from Britain, Ireland, and the United States Includes suggestions for further reading and a chronology, detailing the most important writers, volumes and events

Twentieth Century Poetry

Twentieth Century Poetry PDF Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 019153420X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Peter Robinson's third book of literary criticism presents a sequence of chapters exploring ways that selves and situations interact and become imaginatively identified with each other in poems. Readings of works by Ezra Pound, Basil Bunting, Louis MacNeice, W. S. Graham, Elizabeth Bishop, Allen Curnow, Charles Tomlinson, Mairi MacInnes, Tom Raworth, and Roy Fisher share an interest in how poems can be both attached to, and detached from, the culture, society, and conditions in which they were written. These studies draw out and underline both the ubiquity and elusiveness of the self in the situation of the text. The poems studied here are also discussed as focal points for relations between readerly and writerly selves and their situations in and over time.

Nations of Nothing But Poetry

Nations of Nothing But Poetry PDF Author: Matthew Hart
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195390334
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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Vernacular discourse from major to minor -- The impossibility of synthetic Scots; or, Hugh MacDiarmid's nationalist internationalism -- A dialect written in the spelling of the capital: Basil Bunting goes home -- Tradition and the postcolonial talent: T.S. Eliot versus E.K. Brathwaite -- Transnational anthems and the ship of state: Harryette Mullen, Melvin B. Tolson and the politics of afro-modernism -- Epilogue denationalizing Mina Loy.

A Concise Companion to Modernism

A Concise Companion to Modernism PDF Author: David Bradshaw
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1405148713
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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This concise Companion offers an innovative approach tounderstanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing onthe intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it. Offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernistliterary mind in Britain. Helps readers to grasp the intellectual and cultural contextsof literary Modernism. Organised around contemporary ideas such as Freudianism andeugenics rather than literary genres. Relates literary Modernism to the overarching issues of theperiod, such as feminism, imperialism and war.

On Burning Ground

On Burning Ground PDF Author: Sandra Gilbert
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472220195
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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The highly esteemed literary critic and poet Sandra M. Gilbert is best known for her feminist literary collaborations with Susan Gubar, with whom she coauthored The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination, as well as the three-volume No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. The essays assembled in On Burning Ground display Gilbert's astonishing range and explore poetics, personal identity, feminism, and modern and contemporary literature. Among the pieces gathered here are essays on D. H. Lawrence, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and Louise Glück, as well as reviews and previously unpublished articles. Sandra M. Gilbert is Distinguished Professor of English Emerita at the University of California, Davis. She is the recipient of Guggenheim, Rockefeller, NEH, and Soros Foundation fellowships and is the author of seven collections of poetry, including Kissing the Bread: New and Selected Poems 1969-1999 and, most recently, Belongings. Praise for Sandra M.Gilbert "Sandra Gilbert's poems are beautifully situated at the intersection of craft and feeling. Belongings is a stellar collection by a virtuoso with heart." ---Billy Collins ". . . brilliantly combines literary and cultural criticism with the intimacy of memoir." ---Joyce Carol Oates "An enduring contribution to the literature of grief." ---New York Times Book Review Poets on Poetry collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.

Reading the Ruins

Reading the Ruins PDF Author: Leo Mellor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139501534
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 257

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From fires to ghosts, and from flowers to surrealist apparitions, the bombsites of London were both unsettling and inspiring terrains. Yet throughout the years prior to the Second World War, British culture was already filled with ruins and fragments. They appeared as content, with visions of tottering towers and scraps of paper; and also as form, in the shapes of broken poetics. But from the outbreak of the Second World War what had been an aesthetic mode began to resemble a proleptic template. During that conflict many modernist writers – such as Graham Greene, Louis MacNeice, David Jones, J. F. Hendry, Elizabeth Bowen, T. S. Eliot and Rose Macaulay – engaged with devastated cityscapes and the altered lives of a nation at war. To understand the potency of the bombsites, both in the Second World War and after, Reading the Ruins brings together poetry, novels and short stories, as well as film and visual art.

Avant-Folk: Small Press Poetry Networks from 1950 to the Present

Avant-Folk: Small Press Poetry Networks from 1950 to the Present PDF Author: Ross Hair
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781383731
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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A critical study of the intersection of folk and avant-garde poetics in transatlantic small press poetry networks from the 1950s up to the present.

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry PDF Author: Peter Robinson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191652474
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 2715

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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have helped shape contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. The book's introduction offers an anthropological participant-observer approach to its variously conflicted subjects, while exploring the limits and openness of the contemporary as a shifting and never wholly knowable category. The five ensuing sections explore: a history of the period's poetic movements; its engagement with form, technique, and the other arts; its association with particular locations and places; its connection with, and difference from, poetry in other parts of the world; and its circling around such ethical issues as whether poetry can perform actions in the world, can atone, redress, or repair, and how its significance is inseparable from acts of evaluation in both poets and readers. Though the book is not structured to feature chapters on authors thought to be canonical, on the principle that contemporary writers are by definition not yet canonical, the volume contains commentary on many prominent poets, as well as finding space for its contributors' enthusiasms for numerous less familiar figures. It has been organized to be read from cover to cover as an ever deepening exploration of a complex field, to be read in one or more of its five thematically structured sections, or indeed to be read by picking out single chapters or discussions of poets that particularly interest its individual readers.