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Figures of Memory: Poetry, Space, and the Past
Charles Ivan Armstrong
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Description for Figures of Memory: Poetry, Space, and the Past
Hardcover. Through incisive readings of ten poets from William Wordsworth to Alice Oswald, this book shows how poets have engaged with the possibilities and pitfalls of memory. Linking poets' uses of personal, aesthetic, and collective memory, as well as history, the book provides a new critical template for understanding how literature engages with the past. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSC; JMRM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 442.
Through incisive readings of ten poets from William Wordsworth to Alice Oswald, this book shows how poets have engaged with the possibilities and pitfalls of memory. Linking poets' uses of personal, aesthetic, and collective memory, as well as history, the book provides a new critical template for understanding how literature engages with the past.
Through incisive readings of ten poets from William Wordsworth to Alice Oswald, this book shows how poets have engaged with the possibilities and pitfalls of memory. Linking poets' uses of personal, aesthetic, and collective memory, as well as history, the book provides a new critical template for understanding how literature engages with the past.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230223530
SKU
V9780230223530
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99-15
About Charles Ivan Armstrong
CHARLES I. ARMSTRONG is Professor of British Literature at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has previously published Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife.
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