Richard Bradford

Poetry (eBook, ePUB)

The Ultimate Guide

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Richard Bradford's new introduction to poetry begins with and answers the slippery question, 'what is poetry?'. The book provides a compact history of English poetry from the 16th century to the present day and surveys the major critical and theoretical approaches to verse. It tackles the important issues of gender, race and nationality and concludes with a lengthy account of how to recognise good poetry. This engaging and readable book is accessible to all readers, from those who simply enjoy poetry through university first years to graduate students. Poetry: The Ultimate Guide provides the technical and critical tools you need to approach and evaluate poetry, and to articulate your own views.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350310162
• Artikelnr.: 62718140

Autorenporträt

Richard Bradford is Research Professor in English at Ulster University and Visiting Professor at the University of Avignon, France. He has published over thirty widely acclaimed books, including biographies of Philip Larkin, Alan Sillitoe, Kingsley Amis, George Orwell and a controversial portraiture of Patricia Highsmith. Bradford has written for The Spectator and The Sunday Times and has appeared on the Channel 4 series In Their Own Words: British Novelists.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- PART 1: WHAT IS POETRY?.- The Basics.- A Definition of Poetry: The Double Pattern.- PART 2: HISTORY: THE RENAISSANCE TO POSTMODERNISM.- The Renaissance.- The Restoration and 18th Century.- Romanticism.- Victorian Poetry.- Modernism and After.- PART 3: CRITICISM AND CONTEXTS.- New Criticism.- Formalism and Structuralism.- The Role of the Reader and Poststructuralism.- New Historicism and Cultural Materialism.- Psychoanalysis.- Deconstruction.- Gender.- Nation, Race and Place.- Evaluation.- Epilogue: Why Do We Write and Read Poetry?.- Bibliography.