A Companion to Poetic Genre

Ed. by Martiny, Erik

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This eagerly awaited companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, amongst others, this valuable collection considers ancient genres such as the elegy, the ode, the ghazal and the ballad, before moving on to Medieval and Renaissance genres originally invented or codified by the Troubadours or poets who followed in their wake.

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A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations.
Covers a large range of poetic cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbea
Summarises many genres from their earliest origins to their most recent renderings
The only full-length critical collection to deal with modern adaptations of poetic genres
Contributors include Bernard O'Donoghue, Stephen Burt, Jahan Ramazani, and many other notable scholars of poetry and poetics

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 672
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1302g
• ISBN-13: 9781444336733
• ISBN-10: 1444336738
• Artikelnr.: 33239245

Autorenporträt

Dr Erik Martiny teaches Anglophone literature and film in Aix-en-Provence, France. He has published numerous articles on poets such as Peter Redgrove, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, Paul Durcan, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon, Ted Hughes and Derek Walcott. He has also written on the connections between film and fiction, having recently edited a volume of essays entitled Lolita: From Nabokov to Kubrick and Lyne (2009), as well as the book Intertextualité et Filiation Paternelle dans la Poésie Anglophone (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

- Notes on Contributors

- Preface

Part I

1. 'To Get the News from Poems': Poetry as Genre

2. New Formalism

3. Metre

4. The Stanza: Echo Chambers

5. Trying to Praise the Mutilated World: The Contemporary American Ode

6. English Elegies

7. The Self-Elegy: Narcissistic Nostalgia or Proleptic Postmortem?

8. Free-Verse and Formal: The English Ghazal

9. On 'the Beat Inevitable': The Ballad

10. Oddity or Tour de Force ? The Sestina

11. The Rondeau: Still Doing the Rounds

12. Weaving Close Turns and Counter Turns: the Villanelle

13. Looping the Loop: Terza Rima

14. Ottava Rima: Quietly Facetious Upon Everything

15. 'Named Airs': American Sonnets (Stevens to Bidart)

16. African American Sonnets: Voicing Political Justice and Personal Dignity

17. The Liberties of Blank verse

18. Arcs of Movement: The Heroic Couplet

19. In a Sea of Indeterminacy: 14 Ways of Looking at Haiku

20. The Pantoum

21. 'Gists and Piths': The Free Verse Revolution in Contemporary American Poetry

22. The Emergent Prose Poem

23. Concrete/Pattern poetry

24. Poems that Count: Procedural Poetry

25. Modes of Found Poetry

Part II

26. 'Horny Morning Mood': The Aubade and Alba

27. Nox Consilium and the Dark Night of the Soul: The Nocturne

28. Heaney, Virgil and Contemporary Katabasis

29. The Aisling

30. The Printed Voice

31. Rewriting the People's Newspaper: Trinidadian Calypso after 1956

32. Tragicomic Mode in Modern American Poetry: 'Awful but Cheerful'

33. Parnassus in Pillory: Satirical Verse

34. The Poetry of Occasions and the Occasions of Poetry

35. On Verse Letters

36. 'Containing History': Epic Poetry and Revisions of the Genre

37. T.S. Eliot and the Short Long Poem

38. Making War Poetry Contemporary

39. Bestiary USA: The Modern American Bestiary Poem

40. 'From Arcadia to Bunyah': Mutation and Diversity in the Pastoral Mode

41. Another Green World: Contemporary Garden Poetry

42. Prospect Poetry

43. Ekphrastic Poetry: In and Out of the Museum