Wit Pietrzak

"All Will Be Swept Away"

Dimensions of Elegy in the Poetry of Paul Muldoon

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Produktbeschreibung

The book is the first study of Paul Muldoonâ s elegiac poetry. It covers virtually all of his elegies, showing how the elegiac attitude has underlain Muldoonâ s poetic development and shaped his aesthetics and formal developments, as it also demonstrates the extent to which Muldoonâ s elegies have transformed the genre

Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781032188188
• ISBN-10: 1032188189
• Artikelnr.: 64675451

Autorenporträt

Wit Pietrzak is Professor of British and Irish Literature at the Institute of English Studies, University of ¿ód¿, Poland. His main areas of interest are modernist and contemporary Anglophone poetry as well as theory and philosophy of literature. He has published The Critical Thought of W. B. Yeats and numerous essays on contemporary British and Irish poetry.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Shared worlds, shared voices: the work of empathy in elegies for
family and friends
Chapter 2. Vision and revision: paternal elegies
Chapter 3. Poetry and politics in elegies for poets and literati
Chapter 4. Mourning bare life: transnational elegies
Chapter 5. Tradition of defiance: Lamentations
Chapter 6. Between speech and silence: war elegies
Works cited
Index

Rezensionen

"This is more than just a book-length study of Muldoon's poetry, it is a book-length study of a poetry of sympathy, grief and death. Pietrzak makes a real contribution to studies of Muldoon's poetry of loss in the context of broader poetic and critical ideas about elegy as a political and psychoanalytical genre. Running throughout the book are close and fully theorised analyses of some of Muldoon's most challenging long poems, which will be invaluable both to the reader new to Muldoon and to longtime enthusiasts. This reader of American and English as well as Irish poetry will find in Pietrzak a critic who engages with the mercurial Muldoon in a style of seriousness, insight and wit."

-Matthew Campbell, Professor of Modern Literature, University of York, UK.