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Poetry and Displacement
Stan Smith
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Description for Poetry and Displacement
Hardcover. Examines the poets Plath, Larkin, Heaney, Walcott, Middleton, Fisher, and Duffy, through the lens of displacement. Series: Poetry &.. Num Pages: 246 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 167 x 30. Weight in Grams: 556.
The paradigmatic figure of twentieth-century history is the ‘displaced person’, a concept which emerged from the demographic migrations, deportations and genocidal purges that accompanied two world wars, the destruction and construction of nation states and the restructuring of the global order which they occasioned. These processes almost inevitably fostered a poetry of exile and expatriation intimately bound up with the experience of modernity and the culture of modernism, culminating, in the postcolonial era, with the globalisation of displacement as the determining condition of postmodernity. In this timely new volume renowned poetry critic Stan Smith examines a number of poets – ... Read more
The paradigmatic figure of twentieth-century history is the ‘displaced person’, a concept which emerged from the demographic migrations, deportations and genocidal purges that accompanied two world wars, the destruction and construction of nation states and the restructuring of the global order which they occasioned. These processes almost inevitably fostered a poetry of exile and expatriation intimately bound up with the experience of modernity and the culture of modernism, culminating, in the postcolonial era, with the globalisation of displacement as the determining condition of postmodernity. In this timely new volume renowned poetry critic Stan Smith examines a number of poets – ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
Series
Poetry &...
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846311161
SKU
V9781846311161
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About Stan Smith
Stan Smith is Research Professor in Literary Studies at Nottingham Trent University.
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