Description |
1 online resource (viii, 238 pages). |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Series |
Poetry &
|
|
Poetry &--
|
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-227) and index. |
Contents |
Introduction : poetry, place and displacement -- On the edge of things : Philip Larkin -- A double man in a double place : Iain Crichton Smith -- Salvaged from the ruins : Ken Smith's Constellations -- Lost bearings : Christopher Middleton -- 'What like is it?' : Carol Ann Duffy's Différance -- Darkening English : post-imperial contestations in Seamus Heaney and Derek Walcott -- Living in history -- An age of simulation : tall tales and short stories -- Nowhere anyone would like to get to -- Milking the cow of the world : displacement displaced. |
Summary |
The last hundred years have been an era of unprecedented displacements: the accelerated drift of rural populations to the metropolis, the spread of these cities into successive empires, and the resulting diasporas that have forged the modern United States and any number of smaller nations. These processes have fostered a poetry of exile and expatriation intimately bound up with the experience and culture of modernity. This book is a thought-provoking and challenging examination of globalized displacement in the work of some of our most critically-acclaimed poets, including Christopher Middleton, Philip Larkin and Derek Walcott. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
|
|
English poetry. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
|
|
Displacement (Psychology) in literature. |
|
Emigration and immigration in literature.
|
|
Emigration and immigration in literature. |
|
Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects.
|
|
Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects. |
|
Exiles in literature.
|
|
Exiles in literature. |
|
Exiles -- Psychology.
|
|
Exiles -- Psychology. |
|
Exiles. |
|
Marginality, Social, in literature.
|
|
Marginality, Social, in literature. |
Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
|
Spine Title |
Poetry & displacement |
Other Form: |
Print version: Smith, Stan, 1943- Poetry and displacement. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2007 9781846311161 (DLC) 2008399590 (OCoLC)154689973 |
ISBN |
9781846313783 (electronic book) |
|
1846313783 (electronic book) |
|
9781846311161 |
|
1846311160 |
|