LEADER 04363nam 22006371 450 001 9910139039903321 005 20230803220312.0 010 $a1-118-61986-2 010 $a1-118-61985-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000001157302 035 $a(EBL)1524296 035 $a(OCoLC)862371063 035 $a(OCoLC)854906260 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1524296 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1524296 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10799630 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL540345 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001157302 100 $a20131107d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aReading postwar British and Irish poetry /$fMichael Thurston and Nigel Alderman 210 1$aChichester, West Sussex ;$aMalden, Massachusetts :$cWiley,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (354 p.) 225 0 $aWiley Blackwell reading poetry 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-470-65731-6 311 $a1-306-09094-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aReading Postwar British and Irish Poetry; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: "Postwar," "British," "Irish," and "Poetry"; 2 A Brief Historical Survey; 3 The Literary Landscape; Poetry in Universities and Schools; Faber and Faber; Different Currents in the Mainstream: Penguin Modern Poets; Widening the Mainstream: Carcanet, PN Review, and Bloodaxe; Tributaries: Poetry Presses in Wales and Ireland; Funding the Mainstream: The Arts Council and the Poetry Society; Start Your Own Revolution and Cut Out the Middleman: Poetry Workshops and Collectives 327 $aOutside the Mainstream: The English IntelligencerStreet Editions, Reality Studio, and Reality Street; 4 Histories of Forms; The Sonnet; The Elegy; Ekphrasis; 5 Poetry of Place; 6 History and Historiography; 7 Varieties of the Long Poem; The Phenomenological Long Poem; 1. "The self is seen as a reflexive project, for which the individual is responsible."; 2. "The self forms a trajectory of development from the past to the anticipated future."; 3. "The reflexivity of the self is continuous, as well as all-pervasive."; 4. "Self-identity, as a coherent phenomenon, presumes a narrative." 327 $a5. "The reflexivity of the self extends to the body."6. "The life course is seen as a series of 'passages.'"; 7. "The line of the development is internally referential."; The Fragmented "Epic"; Narrative Poems; The Lyric Sequence; The Slim Volume; 8 Subject To, Subject Of; The Upper Left : Unmarked / Continuous and Coherent; The Upper Right : Unmarked / Contingent and Constructed; The Lower Left : Marked / Continuous and Coherent; The Lower Right : Marked / Constructed and Contingent; 9 Anthologies and Groups; 10 Epilogue: Beyond "British," "Irish," and "Poetry"; Beyond "British" and "Irish" 327 $aBeyond "Poetry"References; Index 330 $a Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century. Features detailed discussions of individual poems that are widely available in anthologies and selected poems volumesPays explicit attention to how to read the poems, focusing on language and form and the institutional conditions of literary possibilit 410 0$aWiley Blackwell Reading Poetry 606 $aEnglish poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish poetry$y21st century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aEnglish poetry$xIrish authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPoetry$xExplication 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xIrish authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPoetry$xExplication. 676 $a821.91409 700 $aThurston$b Michael$0855728 701 $aAlderman$b Nigel$0855729 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910139039903321 996 $aReading postwar British and Irish poetry$91910559 997 $aUNINA