Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism
Ian Gregson
€ 119.43
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism
Hardback. This volume explores the relationship between the poetry of the mainstream and kinds of modernist poetry that have had to make their way outside it. In its examination, the text argues that the mainstream has been infiltrated by modernist and postmodernist estrangement effects. Num Pages: 279 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSA; DSBH; DSC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 1. Weight in Grams: 476.
Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism explores the fraught relationship between the poetry of the mainstream and kinds of modernist poetry that have had to make their way outside it. Mainstream poets like Paul Muldoon, James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy multiply voices and so draw on resources from the novel - Bakhtin's concept of the dialogic is therefore used to explain their techniques. By contrast, Shklovsky's concept of 'estrangement' is shown to be more useful in accounting for the radical experimentation of poets like Edwin Morgan, Christopher Middleton and Denise Riley. However, the book concludes by suggesting that - partly because ... Read more
Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism explores the fraught relationship between the poetry of the mainstream and kinds of modernist poetry that have had to make their way outside it. Mainstream poets like Paul Muldoon, James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy multiply voices and so draw on resources from the novel - Bakhtin's concept of the dialogic is therefore used to explain their techniques. By contrast, Shklovsky's concept of 'estrangement' is shown to be more useful in accounting for the radical experimentation of poets like Edwin Morgan, Christopher Middleton and Denise Riley. However, the book concludes by suggesting that - partly because ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
279
Condition
New
Number of Pages
269
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333655658
SKU
V9780333655658
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Ian Gregson
Ian Gregson
Reviews for Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism