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Counterpoetics of Modernity

By David Lloyd

Counterpoetics of Modernity

By David Lloyd

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A new approach to contemporary Irish poetry This study puts contemporary Irish poetry in dialogue with major debates and concerns of European and American poetics. David Lloyd tracks the traits of Irish poetic modernism, from fragmentation to the suspicion of representation, in nineteenth-century responses to the rapid and unsettling effects of Ireland's precocious colonial modernity, such as language loss and political violence. He argues that Irish poetry's inventiveness is driven by the need to find formal means to engage with historical conditions that take from the writer the customary certainties of cultural continuity, identity and aesthetic or personal autonomy, rather than by poetic innovation for its own sake. This reading of Irish poetry understands the innovative impetus that persists through Irish poetry since the nineteenth century as a counterpoetics of modernity. Opening with chapters on Mangan and Yeats, the book then turns to detailed discussions of Trevor Joyce, Maurice Scully, and Catherine Walsh: major Irish contemporary poets never before the focus of a book-length study. David Lloyd is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent books are Under Representation: The Racial Regime of Aesthetics (2019) and Beckett's Thing: Theatre and Painting (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).
Product details
Number of Pages:
232
Release Date:
2021-03-31
Publication Date:
2022-03-17
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
147448980X
ISBN13:
9781474489805
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[email protected]
Weight:
340 g
Height:
233 cm
Width:
154 cm
Thickness:
15 cm
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