Poetry in a Global Age

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Av Jahan Ramazani

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Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame. Indeed, the globality of poetry, he argues, stands to energize the transnational turn in the humanities.Poetry in a Global Age builds on Ramazani’s award-winning A Transnational Poetics, a book that had a catalytic effect on literary studies. Ramazani broadens his lens to discuss modern and contemporary poems not only in relation to world literature, war, and questions of orientalism but also in light of current debates over ecocriticism, translation studies, tourism, and cultural geography. He offers brilliant readings of postcolonial poets like Agha Shahid Ali, Lorna Goodison, and Daljit Nagra, as well as canonical modernists such as W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and Marianne Moore. Ramazani shows that even when poetry seems locally rooted, its long memory of forms and words, its connections across centuries, continents, and languages, make it a powerful imaginative resource for a global age. This book makes a strong case for poetry in the future development of world literature and global studies.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-10-29
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagThe University of Chicago Press
ISBN9780226730141

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Introduction.Chapter 1. “Cosmopolitan Sympathies”: Poetry of the First Global WarChapter 2. The Local Poem in a Global AgeChapter 3. Poetry and Tourism in a Global AgeChapter 4. Modernist Inflections, Postcolonial DirectionsChapter 5. Poetry and the Transnational Migration of FormChapter 6. Yeats’s Asias: Modernism, Orientalism, Anti-orientalismChapter 7. Poetry, the Planet, and the Ecological Thought: Wallace Stevens and BeyondChapter 8. Seamus Heaney’s GlobeChapter 9. Code-Switching, Code-Stitching: A Macaronic Poetics?Chapter 10. Poetry, (Un)Translatability, and World LiteratureEpilogue. Lyric Poetry: Intergeneric, Transnational, Translingual?AcknowledgmentsNotesIndex

"Ramazani’s insight in Poetry in a Global Age is especially astute and timely: poetry is important and flourishing precisely because of its global perspective. . . . Among the book’s many merits are the close readings which, teeming from its dense pages, are uniformly insightful. Ramazani is either introducing us to poets who deserve a wider audience and showing us why. . . or reconceiving some aspect of long-studied figures with a fresh angle or a new context."