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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Oxford Handbooks)
Peter Robinson
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Description for The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Oxford Handbooks)
Paperback. This Handbook offers an authoritative and up-to-date collection of original essays bringing together ground breaking research into the development of contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Editor(s): Robinson, Peter. Series: Oxford Handbooks. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1DBR; 3JJP; 3JM; DSBH; DSC; HBLW3; HBLX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 251 x 175 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1324.
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have helped shape contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. The book's introduction offers an anthropological participant-observer approach to its variously conflicted subjects, while exploring the limits and openness of the contemporary as a shifting and never wholly knowable category. The five ensuing sections explore: a history of the period's poetic movements; its engagement with form, technique, and the other ... Read more
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have helped shape contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. The book's introduction offers an anthropological participant-observer approach to its variously conflicted subjects, while exploring the limits and openness of the contemporary as a shifting and never wholly knowable category. The five ensuing sections explore: a history of the period's poetic movements; its engagement with form, technique, and the other ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Series
Oxford Handbooks
Number of Pages
782
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198778547
SKU
V9780198778547
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About Peter Robinson
Edited by Peter Robinson, Professor of English and American Literature, The University of Reading.
Reviews for The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Oxford Handbooks)
probably the major publication on British poetry since 1950 ... it is a tribute to the editor's wise and good-natured open-mindedness that he has managed to bring so many of the 'ways of life' which call themselves poetry under one roof.
The Year's Work in English Studies
the intellectual grasp of each subject underpinning every chapter is superb. ... Read more
The Year's Work in English Studies
the intellectual grasp of each subject underpinning every chapter is superb. ... Read more