Counterpoetics of modernity : on Irish poetry and modernism / David Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lloyd, David, 1955 December 20- author.

Series:

Edinburgh scholarship online.

Edinburgh scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

Irish poetry.

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

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

European poetry--History and criticism.

European poetry.

American poetry--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 219 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2022.

Summary:

This study puts contemporary Irish poetry in dialogue with major debates and concerns of European and American poetics. David Lloyd tracks the traits of Irish poetic modernism, from fragmentation to the suspicion of representation, to nineteenth-century responses to the rapid and unsettling effects of Ireland's precocious colonial modernity, such as language loss and political violence. He argues that Irish poetry's inventiveness is driven by the need to find formal means to engage with historical conditions that take from the writer the customary certainties of cultural continuity, identity and aesthetic or personal autonomy, rather than by poetic innovation for its own sake.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

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Introduction: Counterpoetics and Colonial Modernity

Part I: Specters of Modernity

1. Overture. The Burden of Discontinuity: Criticism, Colonialism, and Anti-Modernism

2. Crossing Over: On James Clarence Mangan’s “Spirits Everywhere”

3. 1913–1916–1919: Yeats’s Dates

4. “To Live Surrounded by a White Song,” or, The Sublimation of Race in Experiment: On the Margins of Susan Howe

Part II: New Things That Have Happened

5. New Things That Have Happened: Forms of Irish Poetry

6. Intricate Walking: Scully’s Livelihood

7. Rome’s Wreck: Joyce’s Baroque

Conclusion. Conduits for the Humane: Walsh’s Optic Verve

Appendix to Chapter 2: Crossing Over

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Nov 2024).

ISBN:

1-4744-8982-6

OCLC:

1312727115