Late modernism and the poetics of place / Neal Alexander.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alexander, Neal, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Poetry, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 272 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, Scotland : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2022]

Summary:

The first book-length literary-geographical study of late modernist poetry. This monograph offers a decisive reappraisal of both the literary history and the literary geography of Anglophone modernism by focusing attention on poetry from both sides of the Atlantic. Where recent studies of late modernism tend to regard it as an inter-war or mid-century phenomenon, this book contends that the period 1945-1975 marks a major phase of experiment and achievement in late modernist poetry. The author contends that what distinguishes the work of many late modernist poets (such as Gwendolyn Brooks, Basil Bunting, W. S. Graham, David Jones, Lorine Niedecker and Charles Olson) during this period is its multi-layered poetics of place. In part, he suggests, this is due to the engagement of individual writers with contemporary developments in human and physical geography. It is also manifest in the tendency of late modernist poets to foreground the cultural significance of regional and non-metropolitan places in their texts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. David Jones: The Sites of History

2. Basil Bunting’s Regional Modernism

3. W. S. Graham: Between Places

4. Lorine Niedecker: Life by Water

5. Charles Olson’s Mappemunde

6. Gwendolyn Brooks: From Bronzeville to the Warpland

Conclusion: After Late Modernism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Alexander, Neal Late Modernism and the Poetics of Place

ISBN:

9781399518840

1399518844

9781474484428

1474484425

9781474484435

1474484433

OCLC:

1336989241