Crisis and Contemporary Poetry [electronic resource] /
Karhio, A.editor.
Crosson, S.editor.
Armstrong, C.editor.
What are the means available to poetry to address crisis and how can both poets and critics meet the conflicts and challenges they face? This collection of essays addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society, from the Holocaust to the ecological crisis.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I: The Limits of Expression: Representation and Identity; 1 Form, Historical Crisis and Poetry's Hope in George Szirtes's 'Metro'; 2 Persona, Trauma and Survival in Louise Glück's Postmodern, Mythic, Twenty-First-Century 'October'; 3 Hern: The Catastrophe of Lyric in John Burnside; Part II: A Special Case: Crisis and Poetry in Northern Ireland; 4 'In a ghostly pool of blood / a crumpled phantom hugged the mud': Spectropoetic Presentations of Bloody Sunday and the Crisis of Northern Ireland
5 'The Given Note': Traditional Music, Crisis and the Poetry of Seamus Heaney6 'Crisis first-hand': Seamus Heaney before and after the Ceasefire; 7 The Mundane and the Monstrous: Everyday Epiphanies in Northern Irish Poetry; Part III: Situated Words: Place, Ecology and Landscape; 8 'The memorial to all of them': Landscape and the Holocaust in the Poetry of Michael Longley; 9 'Toward a Brink': The Poetry of Kathleen Jamie and Environmental Crisis; 10 Sounding the Landscape: Dis-placement in the Poetry of Alice Oswald; 11 Place, Narrative and Crisis in the Long Poems of Paul Muldoon
Part IV: Suspended Judgements: Rethinking Poetic Reception12 Paul Muldoon: Critical Judgement, the Crisis Poem, and the Ethics of Voice; 13 Displacing the Crisis: New British Poetry, Cultural Memory and the Role of the Intellectual; 14 The Body of Text Meets the Body as Text: Staging (I)dentity in the Work of SuAndi and Lemn Sissay; Selected Critical Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What are the means available to poetry to address crisis and how can both poets and critics meet the conflicts and challenges they face? This collection of essays addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society, from the Holocaust to the ecological crisis.
Poetry.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Civilization—History.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Cultural studies.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Cultural History.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Cultural Studies.