From 'open field' to the internet, and via concrete and experimental poetry, this book draws out connections between the turn towards ideas of space in cultural and social theory and developments in contemporary poetry. Readings of a range of poets from the UK and the USA explore the relationship be
Ideas of Space in Contemporary Poetry
โ Scribed by Ian Davidson (auth.)
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Year
- 2007
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 208
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Aesthetics of Space: Cubism to Language Poetry....Pages 6-23
Spatial Theories and Poetic Practices....Pages 24-58
The Space Age: The 1950s to the 1970s....Pages 59-79
Histories of Selves: Space, Identity and Subjectivity....Pages 80-88
Space, Place and Identity....Pages 89-123
Now You See It: Visual Poetry and the Space of the Page....Pages 124-162
Through the Looking Glass: Poetry in Virtual Worlds....Pages 163-185
Back Matter....Pages 186-196
โฆ Subjects
Poetry and Poetics; Twentieth-Century Literature
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