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Title The Oxford handbook of contemporary British and Irish poetry / edited by Peter Robinson
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 761 pages)
Series Oxford handbooks of literature
Oxford handbooks of literature.
Contents Part I. Movements over time ---- Part II. Senses of form and technique ---- Part III. Poetry in places ---- Part IV. Border crossings ---- Part V. Responsibilities and values
Summary This book offers thirty-eight chapters of ground breaking research that form a collaborative guide to the many groupings and movements, the locations and styles, as well as concerns (aesthetic, political, cultural and ethical) that have helped shape contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. The book's introduction offers an anthropological participant-observer approach to its variously conflicted subjects, while exploring the limits and openness of the contemporary as a shifting and never wholly knowable category. The five ensuing sections explore: a history of the period's poetic movements; its engagement with form, technique, and the other arts; its association with particular locations and places; its connection with, and difference from, poetry in other parts of the world; and its circling around such ethical issues as whether poetry can perform actions in the world, can atone, redress, or repair, and how its significance is inseparable from acts of evaluation in both poets and readers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject English poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
English poetry -- Irish authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism
English poetry -- Irish authors -- 21st century -- History and criticism
English poetry
English poetry -- Irish authors
Literature
Gedichten.
SUBJECT Northern Ireland -- In literature
Ireland -- In literature
Subject Ireland
Northern Ireland
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.
Ierland.
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handboeken (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Robinson, Peter, 1953-
ISBN 9780191751318
0191751316
0199596808
9780199596805
0191652466
9780191652462
Other Titles Contemporary British and Irish poetry