A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry

Herausgeber: Alderman, Nigel; Blanton, C D

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Produktbeschreibung

This Concise Companion introduces students to the most important poetic figures, movements, contexts, and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry, providing a much-needed reference point in a sprawling and often contentious field. Written by critics on both sides of the Atlantic and complemented by a general chronology detailing some of the most important writers, volumes, and events of recent decades, these essays provide contexts for critical reading, situating the central issues confronting post-war British and Irish poets within the wider framework of twentieth-century poetry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9781405129244
• ISBN-10: 1405129247
• Artikelnr.: 21531222

Autorenporträt

Nigel Alderman is assistant professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He previously taught at Yale University where he was awarded the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities and the Sarai Ribicoff Award for the Encouragement of Teaching at Yale College. He has published on both Romantic and Modern poetry and is completing a book on British literature of the sixties. C. D. Blanton is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches modern poetry. He has previously taught at Princeton University. He is currently completing a study of late modernist British poetry entitled Aftereffects, and together with Nigel Alderman he has edited Pocket Epics: British Poetry After Modernism.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Chronology.

Introduction: Nigel Alderman (Mount Holyoke College) & C. D.Blanton (University of California, Berkeley).

1. Poetic Modernism and the Century's Wars: Vincent Sherry(Washington University in St Louis).

2. The Movement of the Mainstream: Stephen Burt (HarvardUniversity).

3. Myth, History and The New Poetry: Nigel Alderman(Mount Holyoke College).

4. Region and Nation in Britian and Ireland: Michael Thurston(Smith College).

5. Form and Identity in the Northern Irish Poetry: John P.Waters (New York University).

6. Poetry and Decolonization Jahan Ramazani: (Unviersity ofVirginia).

7. Transatlantic Currents: C. D. Blanton (University ofCalifornia, Berkeley).

8. Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Orientations: Drew Milne(University of Cambridge).

9. Contemporary British Women Poets and the Lyric Subject: LindaA Kinnahan (Duquesne University).

10. Place, Space, and Landscape: Eric Falci (University ofCalifornia, Berkeley).

11. Poetry and Religion: Romana Huk (University of NotreDame).

12. Institutions of Poetry in Postwar Britain: Peter Middleton(University of Southampton).

References.

Index.

Rezensionen

"Eminently readable, and thankfully largely free ofsocio-political posturing and theorising, it provides a measuredhistorical overview and a critical introduction, and one can seethat the overall approach aims to be integrative, charting what aredescribed as intricate negotiations between the British and Irishpoetic traditions, and marshalling rival tendencies andpositions." (Suite101.com, 17 February 2014)

"Written by critics from Britain, Ireland and the USA,this new paperback, A Concise Companion to Postwar British andIrish Poetry, edited by Nigel Alderman and C D Blanton (WileyBlackwell, £29.99 / EUR36, January 2014), opens up manyareas for literary exploration as it introduces students to themost important figures, movements and trends in British and Irishpoetry since 1945." (Allvoices, 17 February2014)

Gives some sense of why poetry provides the sharpest of lensesthrough which to view the historical and social developments of thesecond half of the twentieth century, and will serve both as auseful source of reference and a provocative starting point fordiscussion." (English Studies, 1 December 2011)

"Engaging and uncluttered by jargon. The mix of formal and thematicissues with social and cultural contexts doubles the usefulness ofthis collection as a preparatory tool for students of the period."(CHOICE, December 2009)