A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry

Herausgegeben von Alderman, Nigel; Blanton, C. D.

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Concise Companions to Literature and Culture
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781118646946
• ISBN-10: 1118646940
• Artikelnr.: 39712264

Autorenporträt

Nigel Alderman is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College C. D. Blanton is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors ix Acknowledgments xii Chronology xv Introduction 1
Nigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton 1 Poetic Modernism and the Century's Wars
11 Vincent Sherry 2 The Movement and the Mainstream 32 Stephen Burt 3 Myth,
History, and The New Poetry 51 Nigel Alderman 4 Region and Nation in
Britain and Ireland 72 Michael Thurston 5 Form and Identity in Northern
Irish Poetry 92 John P. Waters 6 Poetry and Decolonization 111 Jahan
Ramazani 7 Transatlantic Currents 134 C. D. Blanton 8 Neo-Modernism and
Avant-Garde Orientations 155 Drew Milne 9 Contemporary British Women Poets
and the Lyric Subject 176 Linda A. Kinnahan 10 Place, Space, and Landscape
200 Eric Falci 11 Poetry and Religion 221 Romana Huk 12 Institutions of
Poetry in Postwar Britain 243 Peter Middleton References 264 Index 285

Rezensionen

"Eminently readable, and thankfully largely free of socio-political posturing and theorising, it provides a measured historical overview and a critical introduction, and one can see that the overall approach aims to be integrative, charting what are described as intricate negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and marshalling rival tendencies and positions." (Suite101.com, 17 February 2014)