Contemporary poetry
Material type: TextPublication details: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2011Description: 264pISBN: 9780748638837Subject(s): English Literature | English Poetry- PoemsDDC classification: 821.9209 Summary: Discussing the work of more than 60 poets from the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean, from Sujata Bhatt to M. Philip NourbeSe and from John Ashbery to Eliot Weinberger, Nerys Williams guides students through the key ideas and movements in the study of poetry today. With reference to original manifestos and web-based experiments, as well as the role of information culture in shaping and distributing poetry globally this book engages with the full vitality of the contemporary poetry scene. Key Features * Wide topic range - from performance to politics, from lyric expression to ecopoetics and from multilingual poetries to electronic writing - enables provocative thematic links to be made * Discussion of global Englishes, dialects and idiolects aimed at those studying poetry on postcolonial literature and contemporary poetics courses * Contemporary relevance: relates poetry to reporting on global conflict, including the impact of the Iraq War * Student resources include a chronology, web resources, a glossary, questions for discussion and a guide to further reading.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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821.91409 CUR/H How to study modern poetry | 821.91409954 GAN/T Tracing roots of indigenous poetry in English : the post colonial connection | 821.91409954 SAN/I Indian poetry in English : a critical study | 821.9209 WIL/C Contemporary poetry | 822. 33 SHA/W William Shakespeare's The tempest | 822 OSB/L Look back in anger: a play in three acts | 822 OSC Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest |
Discussing the work of more than 60 poets from the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean, from Sujata Bhatt to M. Philip NourbeSe and from John Ashbery to Eliot Weinberger, Nerys Williams guides students through the key ideas and movements in the study of poetry today. With reference to original manifestos and web-based experiments, as well as the role of information culture in shaping and distributing poetry globally this book engages with the full vitality of the contemporary poetry scene.
Key Features
* Wide topic range - from performance to politics, from lyric expression to ecopoetics and from multilingual poetries to electronic writing - enables provocative thematic links to be made
* Discussion of global Englishes, dialects and idiolects aimed at those studying poetry on postcolonial literature and contemporary poetics courses
* Contemporary relevance: relates poetry to reporting on global conflict, including the impact of the Iraq War
* Student resources include a chronology, web resources, a glossary, questions for discussion and a guide to further reading.
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