Research Catalog

Title

'Slight return' : Paul Muldoon's poetics of place / Anne Karhio.

Author

Karhio, Anne, 1975-

Publication

Bern : Peter Lang AG, International Academic Publishers, [2017]

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Description

ix, 250 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

This volume examines the relationship between poetic language and place in the work of Paul Muldoon. Through a close reading of the formal and stylistic aspects of his poems, the book explores the question of how poetry as an art form can be engaged to map the complex exchanges between language and the material, phenomenal, personal and social dimensions of our sense of place. In particular, it demonstrates how various forms of repetition and return, in language and memory, are crucial to Muldoon’s approach to place and landscape. Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of the poet’s work: the naming of place; the genre of the long poem; poetry, music and nostalgia; and, finally, the place of poetry in the information age.

Series Statement

Reimagining Ireland ; volume 77

Uniform Title

Reimagining Ireland; v. 77.

Alternative Title

Paul Muldoon's poetics of place

Subject

• Muldoon, Paul > Criticism and interpretation
• Muldoon, Paul
• Language poetry > History and criticism
• Irish poetry > Theory, etc

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: poetics and place -- Mapping the territory: Muldoon in critical context -- Place, naming and textual cartographies -- 'All too familiar': topographies of crisis in Muldoon's long poems -- 'Slight return': place, music and nostalgia -- The place of poetry in the information age: things worth knowing?

ISBN

• 303431986X
• 9783034319867
• 9781787072275 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781787072282 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781787072299 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

965492091

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library