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What are the means available to poetry to address crisis and how can both poets and critics meet the conflicts and challenges they face? This collection of essays addresses poetic and critical responses to the various crises encountered by contemporary writers and our society, from the Holocaust to the ecological crisis.
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Limits of Expression: Representation and Identity
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A Special Case: Crisis and Poetry in Northern Ireland
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Situated Words: Place, Ecology and Landscape
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Suspended Judgements: Rethinking Poetic Reception
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Reviews
'Focusing on poetry from Britain, Ireland and the USA, Crisis and Contemporary Poetry dissects and discusses a number of controversial issues within poetry...It does this in a totally refreshing and inviting manner, which, by the book's end, enables one to feel both entriched and enlightened.' - David Marx Book Reviews
Editors and Affiliations
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MARY KATE AZCUY Assistant Professor, Monmouth University, USA
GUINN BATTEN Associate Professor of English, Washington University, USA
SCOTT BREWSTER Director of English, University of Salford, UK
LUCY COLLINS Lecturer in English Literature, University College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
BRENDAN CORCORAN Associate Professor of English, Indiana State University, USA
RUBEN MOI Assistant Professor and Research Fellow in English and Comparative Literature, University of Tromsø, Norway
EVA MUELLER-ZETTELMANN Associate Professor of English Literature and Cultural Theory, Vienna University, Austria
DEIRDRE OSBORNE Senior Lecturer in Drama, Goldsmiths University of London, UK
STEPHEN REGAN Professor of English, University of Durham, UK
JOHN SEARS Senior Lecturer in English Literature, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
JANNE STIGEN DRANGSHOLT Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Language Studies, University of Stavanger, Norway
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Crisis and Contemporary Poetry
Editors: Anne Karhio, Seán Crosson, Charles I. Armstrong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306097
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-24724-6Published: 24 November 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31981-7Published: 24 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-30609-7Published: 24 November 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 260
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Cultural History, Twentieth-Century Literature, Cultural Studies