Eidolon - Couverture souple

Parmar, Sandeep

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 184861392X ISBN 13 : 9781848613928

Editeur : Shearsman Books, 2015

Synopsis

Partly a modern revision of the Helen myth, Eidolon meditates on the visible and invisible forces of Western civilisation from classical antiquity to present-day America. An Eidolon is an image, a ghost, a spectre, a scapegoat. It is a device, like deus ex machina, to deal with the problem of narrative, specifically Helen's supposed deceit and infidelity. The Eidolon, as a device, is something beauteous and beguiling - as a thing, or as a preoccupation, it is the siren song to the poet who listens for silence. Who gives Helen her voice and what need unites it into a single, constant loathsome creature? Helen is as much the city of Troy as its famed plains and high walls. It might as well be Helen smouldering on the great pyre of defeat, even though she escapes unscathed in Homer's Odyssey and is restored to her husband's side by the eidolon's unique guarantee of her chastity.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sandeep Parmar is Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool where she co-directs Liverpool's Centre for New and International Writing. She holds a PhD from University College London and an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. Her books include "Reading Mina Loy's Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern", an edition of the "Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees" (Carcanet, 2011), and three books of her own poetry published by Shearsman: "Faust", a Poetry Book Society Choice, "The Marble Orchard" and "Eidolon", winner of the Ledbury Forte Prize for Best Second Collection. She also edited the "Selected Poems of Nancy Cunard" (Carcanet, 2016). Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Statesman, the Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement and BBC Radio 3. She is co-founder of the Ledbury Poetry Critics scheme for poetry critics of colour. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Arts.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Shearsman Books
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 184861392X
• ISBN 13: 9781848613928
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 72
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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