Figures of Memory
Poetry, Space, and the Past
Published on 14. January 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-1-349-58771-1 (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 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-349-58771-1 (9781349587711)
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Book
04/2009
Palgrave Macmillan
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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