Counterpoetics of Modernity

Reviews / Votes

In its adoption and recasting of Edouard Glissant's notion of a counter or forced poetics as an alternative to the frequently anodyne critical conceptions of Irish modernism, Lloyd's study constitutes a groundbreaking account and authoritative re-evaluation of innovative Irish poetries from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. -- Alex Davis, University College Cork [...] a book that I believe will be seen as a key moment in our understanding of what is most vital in Irish poetry. -- Billy Mills * Elliptical Movements * The new things that happen happen somewhere, not nowhere, and that which is counter, is counter to some specific set of circumstances. Lloyd's great strength here is to bring out into the light of critical examination the specifics of a distinctly Irish counterpoetics. ...in a book that I believe will be seen as a key moment in our understanding of what is most vital in Irish poetry. -- Billy Mills * Elliptical Movements * Lloyd's treatment of often overlooked poets and their influence is profound. Counterpoints of Modernity is a major contribution to scholarship of Irish poetry.
Summing Up: Essential. -- D. W. Madden, emeritus, California State University * CHOICE * Lloyd's treatment of often overlooked poets and their influence is profound. Counterpoints of Modernity is a major contribution to scholarship of Irish poetry.
Summing Up: Essential. -- D. W. Madden, emeritus, California State University * CHOICE * Counterpoetics of Modernity represents a significant contribution to our understandings of not just contemporary Irish poetry but also of modernism itself. It undermines the sense of both a givenness and a homogeneity within modernist literature, its sensibilities and implications. This book is at once the kind of close reading we are used to but it is also impressively expansive - taking up Irish poetry of the 1930s, contemporary Irish poetry, and Irish poetry from as far back as James Clarence Mangan and the first half of the 19th Century. Yet it remains incise, thorough, coherent, suasive. -- Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem * Irish Studies Review * Counterpoetics of Modernity represents a significant contribution to our understandings of not just contemporary Irish poetry but also of modernism itself. It undermines the sense of both a givenness and a homogeneity within modernist literature, its sensibilities and implications. This book is at once the kind of close reading we are used to but it is also impressively expansive - taking up Irish poetry of the 1930s, contemporary Irish poetry, and Irish poetry from as far back as James Clarence Mangan and the first half of the 19th Century. Yet it remains incise, thorough, coherent, suasive. -- Maureen E. Ruprecht Fadem * Irish Studies Review *