Poetry and the Sense of Reversal

Unsettling the Limits

von William D. Melaney

168 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

How does modern poetry from Donne to Ashbery provide occasions for rethinking the scope and limits of the literary canon? This question is not simply concerned with literature in English but addresses the problem of how texts transform the reader’s experience of literature in the wake of modernity. This study shows how an experience of absence is the starting point for a reversal that occurs whenever reading transforms an engagement with the world. The eight chapters that comprise this study offer revisionary readings of key poetic works and a new way of understanding the modern canon. 

• Reihe: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Lyrik und Dichter
• ISBN: 9783032071231
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2025
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Springer International Publishing