Poetry and displacement
By: Stan Smith.
Series: Poetry &--
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Liverpool
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9781846311161
Subjects: English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Displacement (Psychology) in literature; Emigration and immigration in literature; Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects; Exiles in literature; Exiles -- Psychology; Marginality, Social, in literature
Other titles: Poetry & displacement
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : poetry, place and displacement; title: On the edge of things : Philip Larkin; title: A double man in a double place : Iain Crichton Smith; title: Salvaged from the ruins : Ken Smith's Constellations; title: Lost bearings : Christopher Middleton; title: 'What like is it?' : Carol Ann Duffy's Différance; title: Darkening English : post-imperial contestations in Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott; title: Living in history; title: An age of simulation : tall tales and short stories; title: Nowhere anyone would like to get to; title: Milking the cow of the world : displacement displaced.