Don Paterson: Contemporary Critical Essays

ISBN-13: 9780748669417 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 176 str.

Natalie Pollard

Opis

The first book-length critical study of the contemporary British poet, Don Paterson
Eight essays by leading literary critics and writers explore the social, historical and personal dimensions of Paterson's poetry and prose. Situating his work in dialogue with the classical, medieval, early modern, modernist and contemporary voices that inform it, the book considers Paterson as a figure actively negotiating his place within literary history and theory, as well as confronting that history with humour and directness.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I: Patterns and Paterson: Forms, Techniques, Histories; 1. Don Paterson’s Ars Poetica, Derek Attridge; 2. Golden Means: Music, Translation and the Patersonnet, Hugh Haughton; 3. No-Score Drawing: Postmodern Games in Don Paterson, Edward Larrissy; 4. Cleaving Nothing From Nothing: Post-Romantic Negation and Affirmation in Don Paterson, Michael O’Neill; 5. An Interview between Don Paterson and Derek Attridge, Form in Poetry; Part II: Poetry in its Place: Responses and Responsibilities; 6. Scotland, Britain and The Elsewhere of Poetry, Gerard Carruthers; 7. On Spirituality and Transcendence, Jo George; 8. Natalie Pollard, Hiding in Full View: Dark Material and Light Writing; 9. Peter Robinson, Punching Yourself in the Face: Don Paterson and his Readers; 10. An Interview between Don Paterson and Matthew Sperling, The Publishing of Poetry; Select Bibliography