Overview
- Provides insights into poetry communities
- Analyzes the ways poetry communities operate and the motivations behind these social movements
- Highlights how contemporary poetics survives with the help of innovative social networks
Part of the book series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (MPCC)
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This book offers a new reading of Marcell Mauss’ and Lewis Hyde’s theories of poetry as gift, exploring poetry exchanges within 20th and 21st century communities of poets, publishers, audiences and readers operating along a gift economy. The text considers trans-Atlantic case studies across fields of performance and ecopoetics, small press publishing and poetry institutions, with focus on Joan Retallack, Bob Holman, Anne Waldman, Bob Cobbing, and feminist performance. Elizabeth-Jane Burnett focuses on innovative poetry that resists commodification, drawing on ethnography to show parallels with gift giving tribal societies; she also considers the ethical, philosophical and psychological motivations for such exchanges with particular reference to poethics. This book will appeal to researchers in modern poetry, poetry teachers, advanced students of modern literature, and those with an interest in poetry.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dr. Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Newman University, Birmingham. She studied English at Oxford and Royal Holloway, University of London. Her poetry includes Rivering (2017) and Swims (2014). She is currently writing a book titled A Dictionary of the Soil.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities
Book Subtitle: The Gift, the Wager, and Poethics
Authors: Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Series Title: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62295-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62294-1Published: 02 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87283-4Published: 18 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62295-8Published: 15 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6052
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6060
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 217
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, Contemporary Literature