Metamodernism and contemporary British poetry / Antony Rowland, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowland, Antony, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture.

Cambridge studies in twenty-first-century literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--21st century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Experimental poetry, English--History and criticism.

Experimental poetry, English.

Modernism (Literature).

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Post-postmodernism (Literature).

Genre:

Literary criticism

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 240 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This book discusses contemporary British poetry in the context of metamodernism. The author argues that the concept of metamodernist poetry helps to recalibrate the opposition between mainstream and innovative poetry, and he investigates whether a new generation of British poets can be accurately defined as metamodernist. Antony Rowland analyses the ways in which contemporary British poets such as Geoffrey Hill, J. H. Prynne, Geraldine Monk and Sandeep Parmar have responded to the work of modernist writers as diverse as T. S. Eliot, H. D. and Antonin Artaud, and what Theodor Adorno describes as the overall enigma of modern art.

Contents:

Introduction

Contemporary British Poetry and Enigmaticalness

Continuing 'Poetry Wars' in Twenty-First-Century British Poetry

Committed and Autonomous Art

Iconoclasm and Enigmatical Commitment

The Double Consciousness of Modernism

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Sep 2021).

ISBN:

1-108-90155-7

1-108-90217-0

1-108-89528-X

OCLC:

1281982485