Poem unlimited : new perspectives on poetry and genre /

Questions of genres as well as their possible definitions, taxonomies, and functions have been discussed since antiquity. Even though categories of genre today are far from being fixed, they have for decades been upheld without question. The goal of this volume is to problematize traditional definit...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kerler, David Ramón (Editor, Contributor), Müller, Timo (Editor, Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]
Series:Buchreihe der Anglia ; 63. Bd.
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Table of Contents:
  • Poetry and genre : an introduction / David Kerler and Timo Müller
  • Genre and archive fever in Romantic poetry : Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" and the sonnet / David Kerler
  • Contesting and continuing the Romantic lyric : Eavan Boland and Kathleen Jamie / Stefanie John
  • Mystic poetry across the ocean : reconciling Persian Sufi poetry and Walt Whitman's Leaves of grass / Elena Furlanetto
  • The dragon in the gate : modernism as a challenge to contemporary poetic genres / Rainer Emig
  • "Now it's failed" : the sonnet form in the poetry of Philip Larkin / Patrick Gill
  • Possibilities, responsibilities : on poetic genres and political poiesis / Pierre-Héli Monot
  • Murderous minds: a narratological approach to poems on perpetrators / Astrid Franke
  • "I have always aspired to a more spacious form" : Czesław Miłosz's reflection on poetic genres in American exile / Ewa Kołodziejczyk
  • "They kept shifting shapes" : Derek Walcott's Omeros and its fluid genre / Kathrin Härtl
  • Diversifying the genre : postmodern strategies in Patience Agbabi's (performance) poetry / Katharina Engel
  • Resisting genrefication : gender and genre in Jean 'Binta' Breeze's The fifth figure / Annika McPherson
  • Crossing genre and media boundaries : poetry in fantastic literary narratives and their film adaptations / Michaela Hausmann
  • Re-erecting genre distinctions? : the sound recordings of William Carlos Williams's Paterson and John Montague's The rough field / Jessica Bundschuh
  • Poetry to music: Gil Scott-Heron's intermedial performance aesthetics / Timo Müller
  • The intermedial poetry of rap : words, sounds, and music videos / Nassim Winnie Balestrini
  • Grime poetry : black British rap lyric(s) in the twenty-first century / Julian Wacker.