Cancer Poetry [electronic resource] /
Twiddy, Iain.author.
This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry. In discussing works by major poets, including Paul Muldoon, Jo Shapcott and Christopher Reid, Cancer Poetry traces the complex ways in which poets represent cancer, and assesses how poetry can be instrumental to emotional recovery.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cancer poetry: an introduction -- Spousal cancer: the flowering of grief -- Parental cancer: the functions of repression -- Locating breast cancer -- Surviving cancer -- Terminal words: conversing with cancer -- Paul Muldoon: cancer and the ethics of representation -- Fierce verse: cancer and imaginative redress -- Remission.
This is the first critical study to offer a sustained analysis of the theme of cancer in contemporary poetry. In discussing works by major poets, including Paul Muldoon, Jo Shapcott and Christopher Reid, Cancer Poetry traces the complex ways in which poets represent cancer, and assesses how poetry can be instrumental to emotional recovery.
Poetry.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Poetry and Poetics.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Twentieth-Century Literature.