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Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism explores the fraught relationship between the poetry of the mainstream and kinds of modernist poetry that have had to make their way outside it. Mainstream poets like Paul Muldoon, James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy multiply voices and so draw on resources from the novel - Bakhtin's concept of the dialogic is therefore used to explain their techniques. By contrast, Shklovsky's concept of 'estrangement' is shown to be more useful in accounting for the radical experimentation of poets like Edwin Morgan, Christopher Middleton and Denise Riley. However, the book concludes by suggesting that - partly because of the influence of surrealism in women poets like Selima Hill and Jo Shapcott - the mainstream has recently been infiltrated by modernist and postmodernist estrangement effects.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Dialogue
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Front Matter
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Estrangement
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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Ian Gregson
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Book Title: Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism
Book Subtitle: Dialogue and Estrangement
Authors: Ian Gregson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379145
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1996
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-65565-8Published: 01 November 1996
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-333-65566-5Published: 27 October 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37914-5Published: 01 November 1996
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 269
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, Cultural Studies, Postmodern Philosophy