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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Hardcover)
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The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Handbooks
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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. The book'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 the book 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' enthusiasms
for numerous less familiar figures. It has been organized to be
read from cover to cover as an ever deepening exploration of a
complex field, to be read in one or more of its five thematically
structured sections, or indeed to be read by picking out single
chapters or discussions of poets that particularly interest its
individual readers.
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