Poetry in a global age

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    • Ramazani, Jahan

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Poetry in a global age

Jahan Ramazani

The University of Chicago Press, 2020

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Summary: "Ideas, culture, and capital now flow across national borders with unprecedented ease, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in this globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame. Indeed, the porousness of world poetry, he argues, stands to radicalize the current transnational turn in the humanities. "Poetry in a Global Age" builds on Ramazani's award-winning "A Transnational Poetics" (2009), a book that had a catalytic effect on literary studies. Ramazani broadens his lens to discuss modern and contemporary poems not only in relation to world literature, war, and questions of orientalism, but also in light of current debates over ecocriticism, translation studies, tourism, and cultural geography. He offers brilliant readings of postcolonial poets like Agha Shahid Ali, Daljit Nagra, and Arun Kolatkar, as well as canonical modernists such as Thomas Hardy, W. B. Yeats, and Wallace Stevens. We hear, for example, t

収録内容

  • "Cosmopolitan sympathies" : poetry of the first global war
  • The local poem in a global age
  • Poetry and tourism in a global age
  • Modernist inflections, postcolonial directions
  • Poetry and the transnational migration of form
  • Yeats's Asias : modernism, orientalism, anti-orientalism
  • Poetry, the planet, and the ecological thought : Wallace Stevens and beyond
  • Seamus Heaney's globe
  • Code switching, code stitching : a macaronic poetics?
  • Poetry, (un)translatability, and world literature
  • Epilogue. Lyric poetry : intergeneric, transnational, translingual?

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