Provides a new approach to contemporary Irish poetry Offers a fresh
approach to Irish poetry, bringing together well-known poets with
new and exciting innovative work Combines illuminating close
readings of poetry with reflections grounded in critical and
aesthetic theory Introduces a number of contemporary Irish poets
whose work has not received sufficient critical attention Puts
Irish poetry in dialogue with major debates and concerns of
European and American poetics Challenges conventional assumptions
about the forms and values of Irish poetry This study puts
contemporary Irish poetry in dialogue with major debates and
concerns of European and American poetics. David Lloyd tracks the
traits of Irish poetic modernism, from fragmentation to the
suspicion of representation, to nineteenth-century responses to the
rapid and unsettling effects of Ireland's precocious colonial
modernity, such as language loss and political violence. He argues
that Irish poetry's inventiveness is driven by the need to find
formal means to engage with historical conditions that take from
the writer the customary certainties of cultural continuity,
identity and aesthetic or personal autonomy, rather than by poetic
innovation for its own sake. This reading of Irish poetry
understands the innovative impetus that persists through Irish
poetry since the nineteenth century as a counterpoetics of
modernity. Opening with chapters on Mangan and Yeats, the book then
turns to detailed discussions of Trevor Joyce, Maurice Scully, and
Catherine Walsh; major Irish contemporary poets never before the
focus of a book-length study.
General
Imprint: |
Edinburgh University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
David Lloyd
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
232 |
Edition: |
85,219 ed. |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4744-8981-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-4744-8981-8 |
Barcode: |
9781474489812 |
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