Martiny A Companion to Poetic Genre

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-4429-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 608 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviewsof poetic genres and their modern adaptations.

* Covers a large range of poetic cultural traditions fromBritain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbea

* Summarises many genres from their earliest origins to theirmost recent renderings

* The only full-length critical collection to deal with modernadaptations of poetic genres

* Contributors include Bernard O'Donoghue, Stephen Burt,Jahan Ramazani, and many other notable scholars of poetry andpoetics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martiny, Erik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors ix
Preface xix
Acknowledgments xxiv
Part I
1 "To Get the News from Poems": Poetry as Genre3
Jahan Ramazani
2 What Was New Formalism? 17
David Caplan
3 Meter 34
Peter L. Groves
4 The Stanza: Echo Chambers 53
Debra Fried
5 Trying to Praise the Mutilated World: The ContemporaryAmerican Ode 64
Ann Keniston
6 English Elegies 77
Neil Roberts
7 The Self-Elegy: Narcissistic Nostalgia or ProlepticPostmortem? 93
Eve C. Sorum
8 Free Verse and Formal: The English Ghazal 104
Lisa Sewell
9 On "the Beat Inevitable": The Ballad 117
Romana Huk
10 Oddity or Tour de Force? The Sestina 139
Nicole Ollier
11 The Rondeau: Still Doing the Rounds 157
Maria Johnston
12 Weaving Close Turns and Counter Turns: The Villanelle171
Karen Jackson Ford
13 Looping the Loop: Terza Rima 188
George Szirtes
14 Ottava Rima: Quietly Facetious upon Everything206
Michael Hinds
15 "Named Airs": American Sonnets (Stevens toBidart) 220
Meg Tyler
16 African American Sonnets: Voicing Justice and PersonalDignity 234
Jeff Westover
17 The Liberties of Blank Verse 250
Patrick Jackson
18 Arcs of Movement: The Heroic Couplet 263
David Wheatley
19 In a Sea of Indeterminacy: Fourteen Ways of Looking at Haiku277
Peter Harris
20 On the Pantoum, and the Pantunite Element in Poetry 293
Geoff Ward
21 "Gists and Piths": The Free-Verse Revolution inContemporary American Poetry 306
Marie-Christine Lemardeley
22 The Emergent Prose Poem 318
Andy Brown
23 Concrete/Visual Poetry 330
Fiona McMahon
24 Poems that Count: Procedural Poetry 348
Hélène Aji
25 Modes of Found Poetry 361
Lacy Rumsey
Part II
26 "Horny Morning Mood": The Aubade and Alba379
Kit Fryatt
27 Nox Consilium and the Dark Night of the Soul: TheNocturne 390
Erik Martiny
28 Heaney, Virgil, and Contemporary Katabasis 404
Rachel Falconer
29 The Aisling 420
Bernard O'Donoghue
30 The Printed Voice 435
Yann Tholoniat
31 Rewriting the People's Newspaper: Trinidadian Calypsoafter 1956 446
John Thieme
32 Tragicomic Mode in Modern American Poetry: "Awful butCheerful" 459
Bonnie Costello
33 Parnassus in Pillory: Satirical Verse 478
Todd Nathan Thompson
34 Poetry and Its Occasions: "Undoing the FoldedLie" 490
Stephen Wilson
35 On Verse Letters 505
Philip Coleman
36 "Containing History": Epic Poetry and Revisionsof the Genre 521
Alex Runchman
37 T.S. Eliot and the Short Long Poem 532
Jennifer Clarvoe
38 Making War Poetry Contemporary 543
Rainer Emig
39 Bestiary USA: The Modern American Bestiary Poem555
Jo Gill
40 "From Arcadia to Bunyah": Mutation and Diversityin the Pastoral Mode 568
Karina Williamson
41 Another Green World: Contemporary Garden Poetry 584
Mark Scroggins
42 Scenic, or Topographical, Poetry 598
Stephen Burt
43 Ekphrastic Poetry: In and Out of the Museum 614
Jonathan Ellis
Index 627

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Erik Martiny teaches Anglophone literature and film inAix-en-Provence, France. He has published numerous articles onpoets such as Peter Redgrove, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath,Paul Durcan, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon, Ted Hughes and DerekWalcott. He has also written on the connections between film andfiction, having recently edited a volume of essays entitledLolita: From Nabokov to Kubrick and Lyne (2009), as well asthe book Intertextualité et Filiation Paternelle dans laPoésie Anglophone (2009).