Figures of Memory
Poetry, Space, and the Past
Published on 23. April 2009
Book
Hardback
IX, 244 pages
978-0-230-22353-0 (ISBN)
Description
Through incisive readings of ten poets from William Wordsworth to Alice Oswald, this book shows how poets have engaged with the possibilities and pitfalls of memory. Linking poets' uses of personal, aesthetic, and collective memory, as well as history, the book provides a new critical template for understanding how literature engages with the past.
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Edition
2009 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
IX, 244 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
431 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-230-22353-0 (9780230223530)
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
01/2014
Palgrave Macmillan
€96.29
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Person
CHARLES I. ARMSTRONG is Professor of British Literature at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has previously published
Romantic Organicism: From Idealist Origins to Ambivalent Afterlife
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Content
Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: The Returns of the Past Multiplicity and Mourning: Wordsworth, Christina Rossetti, Tennyson Weird Wests: Victorian and Post-Victorian Displacements of Nostalgia Modernism, Tradition, and Organicism in T. S. Eliot and Heaney Other Times: Contemporary Poetry's Breaks with the Past Conclusion: Imperfect Hindsight Notes Bibliography Index