Transnational Poetics

English

ISBN: 0226703444

EAN: 9780226703442

Category: Literary Criticism / Poetry

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Release Date: 05/31/2009

Synopsis: Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneousstubbornly national, in T. S. Eliots phrase, or the most provincial of the arts, according to W. H. Auden. But inATransnational Poetics,Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic imaginationin modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; in postWorld War II North America and the North Atlantic; and in ethnic American, postcolonial, and black British writing. Cross-cultural exchange and influence are, he argues, among the chief engines of poetic development in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Reexamining the work of a wide array of poets, from Eliot, Yeats, and Langston Hughes to Elizabeth Bishop, Lorna Goodison, and Agha Shahid Ali, Ramazani reveals the many ways in which modern and contemporary poetry in English overflows national borders and exceeds the scope of national literary paradigms. Through a variety of transnational templatesglobalization, migration, travel, genre, influence, modernity, decolonization, and diasporahe discovers poetic connection and dialogue across nations and even hemispheres. Exceptionally wide-ranging in scope yet rigorously focused on particulars,A Transnational Poeticsdemonstrates how poetic analysis can foster an aesthetically attuned transnational literary criticism that is at the same time alert to modernitys global condition.

Transnational Poetics

Illustrated: No

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.83 inches

Width: 6.38 inches

Length: 9.29 inches

Weight: 17.43 oz

Pages: 240