'Slight Return': Paul Muldoon's Poetics of Place Contributor(s): Maher, Eamon (Editor), Karhio, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 303431986X ISBN-13: 9783034319867 Publisher: Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publis OUR PRICE: $70.35 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
Series: Reimagining Ireland |
Physical Information: (0.83 lbs) 260 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This volume examines the relationship between poetic language and place in the work of Paul Muldoon. Through a close reading of the formal and stylistic aspects of his poems, the book explores the question of how poetry as an art form can be engaged to map the complex exchanges between language and the material, phenomenal, personal and social dimensions of our sense of place. In particular, it demonstrates how various forms of repetition and return, in language and memory, are crucial to Muldoon's approach to place and landscape. Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of the poet's work: the naming of place; the genre of the long poem; poetry, music and nostalgia; and, finally, the place of poetry in the information age. |