Counterpoetics of Modernity: On Irish Poetry and Modernism - Couverture souple

Lloyd, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1474489818 ISBN 13 : 9781474489812

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Lloyd is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent books are Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics (2019) and Beckett's Thing: Theatre and Painting (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1474489818
• ISBN 13: 9781474489812
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 232
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• Personne responsable: non disponible