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Contemporary Poetry / Nerys Williams.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Guides to Literature : ECGLPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748638840
  • 9780748646036
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR612 .W55 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Lyric Subjects -- Chapter 2 Politics and Poetics -- Chapter 3 Performance and the Poem -- Chapter 4 Environment and Space -- Chapter 5 Dialects, Idiolects and Multilingual Poetries -- Conclusion -- Student Resources -- Index
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
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780748646036

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Lyric Subjects -- Chapter 2 Politics and Poetics -- Chapter 3 Performance and the Poem -- Chapter 4 Environment and Space -- Chapter 5 Dialects, Idiolects and Multilingual Poetries -- Conclusion -- Student Resources -- Index

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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

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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