Crisis and Contemporary Poetry

✍ Scribed by Anne Karhio, Seán Crosson, Charles I. Armstrong (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 267
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Form, Historical Crisis and Poetry’s Hope in George Szirtes’s ‘Metro’....Pages 19-32
Persona, Trauma and Survival in Louise Glück’s Postmodern, Mythic, Twenty-First-Century ‘October’....Pages 33-49
Hern: The Catastrophe of Lyric in John Burnside....Pages 50-58
Front Matter....Pages 59-59
‘In a ghostly pool of blood / a crumpled phantom hugged the mud’: Spectropoetic Presentations of Bloody Sunday and the Crisis of Northern Ireland....Pages 61-81
‘The Given Note’: Traditional Music, Crisis and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney....Pages 82-98
‘Crisis first-hand’: Seamus Heaney before and after the Ceasefire....Pages 99-113
The Mundane and the Monstrous: Everyday Epiphanies in Northern Irish Poetry....Pages 114-127
Front Matter....Pages 129-129
‘The memorial to all of them’: Landscape and the Holocaust in the Poetry of Michael Longley....Pages 131-149
‘Toward a Brink’: The Poetry of Kathleen Jamie and Environmental Crisis....Pages 150-166
Sounding the Landscape: Dis-placement in the Poetry of Alice Oswald....Pages 167-179
Place, Narrative and Crisis in the Long Poems of Paul Muldoon....Pages 180-198
Front Matter....Pages 199-199
Paul Muldoon: Critical Judgement, the Crisis Poem, and the Ethics of Voice....Pages 201-214
Displacing the Crisis: New British Poetry, Cultural Memory and the Role of the Intellectual....Pages 215-229
The Body of Text Meets the Body as Text: Staging (I)dentity in the Work of SuAndi and Lemn Sissay....Pages 230-247
Back Matter....Pages 248-260

✦ Subjects

Poetry and Poetics; Literary Theory; Cultural Theory; Cultural History; Twentieth-Century Literature; Cultural Studies

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