Poetry and Culture in Britain, Canada and the United States: 20th and Early 21st Century Literature (1) (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

Synopsis

This book is about poetry and the poetic in the cultures and literatures of Britain, Canada and the United States. Close reading is the primary method. The figures discussed in the book were born from 1911 to the post-war years after 1945. The volume proceeds from Marshall McLuhan as a poet through Douglas LePan, Ted Hughes, Leonard Cohen, Margaret Atwood, Thomas King and Forrest Gander to Hannah Lowe, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin, Fred Wah (interpoetics, poetry and culture in Chinese diasporic poetry), Louis Riel, Pauline Johnson, Naomi McIlwraith (Indigenous and Métis poetry), Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá, Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Joan Kane, Russell Leong, Marilyn Chin and Forrest Gander (the multiple makings of poetry of North America). Here is a poetry of the North Atlantic world, a transatlantic poetics then and now. The book reads poetry and the poetic in terms of media, aesthetics, drama, criticism, music, interpoetics, diaspora, culture, diversity, and African, Asian and Indigenous poets.

Copyright:

2025

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

218 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781040331200

Related ISBNs:

9781040331163, 9781003463825, 9781032733609

Publisher:

Taylor & Francis

Date of Addition:

03/18/25

Copyrighted By:

Jonathan Locke Hart, The right of Jonathan Locke Hart to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with sections

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Poetry, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts

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