Called the "mother of beauty" by Wallace Stevens, death has been perhaps the favorite muse of modern poets. From Langston Hughes's lynch poems to Sylvia Plath's father elegies, modern poetry has tried to find a language of mourning in an age of mass death, religious doubt, and forgotten ritual. For this reason, Jahan Ramazani argues, the elegy, one of the most ancient of poetic genres, has remained one of the most vital to modern poets. Through subtle readings of elegies, self-elegies, war poems, and the blues, Ramazani greatly enriches our critical understanding of a wide range of poets,...
Called the "mother of beauty" by Wallace Stevens, death has been perhaps the favorite muse of modern poets. From Langston Hughes's lynch poems to Sylv...
In recent decades, much of the most vital literature written in English has come from the former colonies of Great Britain. But while postcolonial novelists such as Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, and V. S. Naipaul have been widely celebrated, the achievements of postcolonial poets have been strangely neglected. In "The Hybrid Muse," Jahan Ramazani argues that postcolonial poets have also dramatically expanded the atlas of literature in English, infusing modern and contemporary poetry with indigenous metaphors and creoles. A rich and vibrant poetry, he contends, has issued from the...
In recent decades, much of the most vital literature written in English has come from the former colonies of Great Britain. But while postcolonial nov...
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry continues to be the most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century poetry in English. It richly represents the major figures, while also giving full voice to ethnic American poetries, experimental traditions, postcolonial poetry, and the long poem, eclipsing all other anthologies in scope, clarity, and balance.
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry continues to be the most comprehensive collection of twentieth-century poetry in Engli...
Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous stubbornly national, in T. S. Eliot s phrase, or the most provincial of the arts, according to W. H. Auden. But in"A Transnational Poetics, "Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic imagination in modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; in post World War II North America and the North Atlantic; and in ethnic American, postcolonial, and black British writing. Cross-cultural exchange and influence are, he argues, among the chief engines of poetic development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Reexamining...
Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous stubbornly national, in T. S. Eliot s phrase, or the most provincial of the arts, according to W. ...
What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system--"suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse," in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in Poetry and Its Others, Jahan Ramazani reveals modern and contemporary poetry's animated dialogue with other genres and discourses. Poetry generates rich new possibilities, he argues, by absorbing and contending with its near verbal relatives. Exploring poetry's vibrant exchanges with other forms of writing, Ramazani shows how poetry assimilates features of prose fiction but differentiates itself from...
What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system--"suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse," in the ...
Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous stubbornly national, in T. S. Eliot s phrase, or the most provincial of the arts, according to W. H. Auden. But in"A Transnational Poetics, "Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic imagination in modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; in post World War II North America and the North Atlantic; and in ethnic American, postcolonial, and black British writing. Cross-cultural exchange and influence are, he argues, among the chief engines of poetic development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Reexamining...
Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous stubbornly national, in T. S. Eliot s phrase, or the most provincial of the arts, according to W. ...
