Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, Paperback
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Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, Paperback by Robinson, Peter (EDT), ISBN 0198778546, ISBN-13 9780198778547, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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. Th'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 arts; its association with particular locations and places; its connection with, and difference from, poetry in other parts of the world; and its circling around such ethical issues as whether poetry can perform actions in the world, can atone, redress, or repair, and how its significance is inseparable from acts of evaluation in both poets and readers. Though th is not structured to feature chapters on authors thought to be canonical, on the principle that contemporary writers are by definition not yet canonical, the volume contains commentary on many prominent poets, as well as finding space for its contributors' enthusi
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Year: 2016
- Binding: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780198778547
- Condition: Fine
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