Contemporary Political Poetry in Britain and Ireland

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-8253-6145-7
Verlag: Carl Winter

Buch, Englisch, Band 77, 274 Seiten, KART, Format (B × H): 135 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 338 g

Reihe: anglistik & englischunterricht

The political poetry produced over the last three decades in Britain and Ireland is marked by a rich diversity of commitments and concerns, a striving for the effective matching of poetic strategy and expressive purpose. The poets considered in this collection of essays differ widely in the intensity of their engagement and their ideological orientation. Their poems address social injustice, civil liberties, ethnic conflict and identity, sexual politics, green issues and urban development but turn also to the politics of aesthetics and the political role of poetry and poet as such. One of the main objectives of this volume is to sound out in how far all these different articulations of the political share common poetic patterns and modes of address or seek to achieve their political effects by completely different, even contrary, ways of discursive approach. Another objective is to provide fresh answers to the vexed question of what the benefits and limitations of a poetic approach to politics may be.

Beitr. v.: Uwe Klawitter, Claus-Ulrich Viol, Christian Schmitt-Kilb, Anette Pankratz, Scott Brewster, Peter Robinson, Cécile Marshall, Michael Szczekalla, Gerold Sedlmayr, Cornelia Gräbner, Kathy-Ann Tan, Andy Croft

Autoren/Hrsg.

Klawitter, Uwe

Viol, Claus-Ulrich

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Irische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies