Contemporary Poetry:

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 refer...

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Main Author: Williams, Nerys (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press [2022]
Series:Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature : ECGL
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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 FeaturesWide topic range - from performance to politics, from lyric expression to ecopoetics and from multilingual poetries to electronic writing - enables provocative thematic links to be madeDiscussion of global Englishes, dialects and idiolects aimed at those studying poetry on postcolonial literature and contemporary poetics coursesContemporary relevance: relates poetry to reporting on global conflict, including the impact of the Iraq WarStudent resources include a chronology, web resources, a glossary, questions for discussion and a guide to further reading
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Mrz 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (288 pages)
ISBN:9780748646036
DOI:10.1515/9780748646036

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