Poetry And Contemporary Culture : : The Question of Value / / A.M. Roberts, Jonathan Allison.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Roberts, A.M.,; Allison, Jonathan,
• MitwirkendeR: Allison, Jonathan,; Bertram, Vicki,; Breslin, Paul,; Craig, Cairns,; Crawford, Robert,; Fraser, Lilias,; Golding, Alan,; Huk, Romana,; Perloff, Marjorie,; Roberts, Andrew Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)

The cultural value of poetry is critically examined in this book, from anthologies and academia to film and the internet. Attention is also given to the role of political ideologies and local, national and ethnic identities in the formation of poetic values.With chapters by distinguished critics from both sides of the Atlantic, the book ranges widely over contemporary poetry in America and the British Isles and explores transatlantic connections. Informed by current theoretical debates around ideas of value, the chapters focus these through clear discussion of texts in various media, including the work of a wide variety of poets and movements. The book carries forward the debate on the value of contemporary poetry amongst critics, scholars and practitioners while offering rich material for students and teachers of contemporary poetry and culture.Contributors: Jonathan Allison, Vicki Bertram, Paul Breslin, Cairns Craig, Robert Crawford, Lilias Fraser, Alan Golding, Romana Huk, Marjorie Perloff, Andrew Michael Roberts.Key FeaturesFocuses on the relationship between poetry and cultural practicesInformed by current theoretical debates about valueWide range of British and American poetry discussed by leading critics from both sides of the Atlantic

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- I Contemporary Poetry and the Question of Value -- II Media, Poets and Politics -- 1 ‘Vocable Scriptsigns’: Differential Poetics in Kenneth Goldsmith’s Fidget and John Kinsella’s Kangaroo Virus -- 2 Words on Film: Collaborative Work between Poets and Film- -- 3 ‘The Appreciation of Real Worth’: Poetry, Radio and the Valued Reader -- 4 Contemporary Poetry and Academia: The Instance of Informationism -- 5 The Rhetoric of Value in Recent British Poetry Anthologies -- 6 Recent American Poetry Anthologies and the Idea of the ‘Mainstream’ -- 7 The Progress of the Avant-Garde: Reading/Writing Race and Culture According to Universal Systems of Value -- 8 The Sign of Democracy and the Terms of Poetry -- 9 ‘Where is the Nation You Promised?’: American Voice in Modern Scottish and Irish Poetr -- 10 Contemporary Poetry and the Great War -- Notes on Contributors -- Index