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A Companion to Poetic Genre
This eagerly awaited Companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres.
Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, among others, this valuable collection considers ancient genres such as the elegy, the ode, the ghazal, and the ballad, before moving on to Medieval and Renaissance genres originally invented or codified by the Troubadours or poets who followed in their wake.
The book also approaches genres driven by theme, such as the calypso and found poetry. Each chapter begins by defining the genre in its initial stages, charting historical developments and finally assessing its latest mutations, be they structural, thematic, parodic, assimilative, or subversive.
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English Studies praises the volume as "useful, informative and yes companionable," recognising its value despite some conceptual challenges. The editor receives commendation for assembling this insightful and engaging collection.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781444336733
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 07 October 2011
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Contributors:
- Edited by Erik Martiny
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 40.0mm
Width: 182.0mm
Height: 254.0mm
Weight: 1306g
Pages: 672
About the Author
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 entitled Lolita: From Nabokov to Kubrick and Lyne (2009), as well asthe book Intertextualite et Filiation Paternelle dans laPoesie Anglophone (2009).
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