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Neal Alexander (Ed.) - Poetry & Geography - 9781846318641 - V9781846318641
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Poetry & Geography

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Description for Poetry & Geography Hardcover. Collected critical essays examine contemporary poetry in terms of cultural geography. Key themes are place and identity; literary cartographies; walking as trope and spatial practice; the poetics of edges, margins, and peripheries; landscape, language, and form. Editor(s): Alexander, Neal; Cooper, David. Series: Poetry &.. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 594.
Poetry & Geography examines the rich diversity of geographical imaginations informing post-war and contemporary poetry in Britain and Ireland. Drawing impetus from the spatial turn in the humanities and social sciences, the fourteen essays collected here appraise the significance of ideas of space, place, and landscape for ‘mainstream’ and ‘experimental’ poets, post-romantics and neo-modernists alike. Cumulatively, the book’s varied articulations of poetry and geography sketch out a series of intersections between language and location, form and environment, sound and space. Poetry’s unique capacity to invigorate and expand our vocabularies of site and situation, of our manifold relations with the world ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Poetry &...
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846318641
SKU
V9781846318641
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About Neal Alexander (Ed.)
Notes on Contributors: Neal Alexander is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Nottingham. Charles I. Armstrong is Head of the Department of Foreign Languages & Translation, University of Agder. Peter Barry is Professor of English at Aberystwyth University. Scott Brewster is Reader in English and Irish Literature, and Director of English, at the University of Salford. Lucy Collins ... Read more

Reviews for Poetry & Geography
An indispensable addition to the study of contemporary British and Irish poetry and a valuable contribution to the wider field of ecocriticism. ... this collection of essays offers a varied and illuminating account of the diverse explorations of space and place in post-war poetry.
Review of English Studies, Vol. 65, no 270
This collection, from general and ... Read more

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