Rajeev S. Patke

Broschiertes Buch

Poetry and Islands

Materiality and the Creative Imagination

Beschreibung

This book demonstrates the variety of ways in which the materiality of islands is intertwined in a symbiotic relationship with the capacity of the imagination to make islands the site and embodiment of a host of recurrent human desires, anxieties, and hopes.

Autor

Rajeev S. Patke is Professor of English at the National University of Singapore, and Professor of Humanities and Director of the Division of Humanities at Yale-NUS College, Singapore. His publications include 'The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens: An Interpretative Study' ( 1985, 2009), 'Postcolonial Poetry in English' (2006), 'The Concise Routledge History of Southeast Asian Writing in English' (2010) co-authored with Philip Holden, and 'Modernist Literature and Postcolonial Studies' (2013). Recent co-edited works include 'A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe and its Empires' (2008), and 'Southeast Asian Writing in English: A Thematic Anthology' (2012).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 305g
• ISBN-13: 9781783484119
• ISBN-10: 178348411X
• Artikelnr.: 42812169