Poem Unlimited : New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre / David Kerler, Timo Müller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kerler, David, Editor.

Müller, Timo, Editor.

Series:

Buchreihe der Anglia ; Band 63.

Buchreihe der Anglia / Anglia Book Series ; 63

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Poetry--History and criticism.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 282 pages).

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Questions of genres as well as their possible definitions, taxonomies, and functions have been discussed since antiquity. Even though categories of genre today are far from being fixed, they have for decades been upheld without question. The goal of this volume is to problematize traditional definitions of poetic genres and to situate them in a broader socio-cultural, historical, and theoretical context. The contributions encompass numerous methodological approaches (including hermeneutics, poststructuralism, reception theory, cultural studies, gender studies), periods (Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism), genres (elegy, sonnet, visual poetry, performance poetry, hip hop) as well as languages and national literatures. From this interdisciplinary and multi-methodological perspective, genres, periods, languages, and literatures are put into fruitful dialogue, new perspectives are discovered, and suggestions for further research are provided.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Poetry and Genre: An Introduction

Genre and Archive Fever in Romantic Poetry: Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" and the Sonnet

Contesting and Continuing the Romantic Lyric: Eavan Boland and Kathleen Jamie

Mystic Poetry Across the Ocean: Reconciling Persian Sufi Poetry and Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass

The Dragon in the Gate: Modernism as a Challenge to Contemporary Poetic Genres

"Now it's failed": The Sonnet Form in the Poetry of Philip Larkin

Possibilities, Responsibilities: On Poetic Genres and Political Poiesis

Murderous Minds: A Narratological Approach to Poems on Perpetrators

"I Have Always Aspired to a More Spacious Form": Czesław Miłosz's Reflection on Poetic Genres in American Exile

"They kept shifting shapes": Derek Walcott's Omeros and its Fluid Genre

Diversifying the Genre: Postmodern Strategies in Patience Agbabi's (Performance) Poetry

Resisting Genrefication: Gender and Genre in Jean 'Binta' Breeze's The Fifth Figure

Crossing Genre and Media Boundaries: Poetry in Fantastic Literary Narratives and Their Film Adaptations

Re-erecting Genre Distinctions?: The Sound Recordings of William Carlos Williams's Paterson and John Montague's The Rough Field

Poetry to Music: Gil Scott-Heron's Intermedial Performance Aesthetics

The Intermedial Poetry of Rap: Words, Sounds, and Music Videos

Grime Poetry: Black British Rap Lyric(s) in the Twenty-First Century

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9783110592665

3110592665

9783110594874

3110594870

OCLC:

1121630911