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Jahan Ramazani
The most acute rendering of an era’s sensibility is its poetry, wrote the editors in their preface to the first edition.
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The Cambridge Companion to Postcolonial Poetry is the first collection of essays to explore the postcolonial poetry through regional, historical, political, formal, textual, gender, and comparative approaches. Strengthening the place…
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Uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic imagination - in modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; in post-World War II North America and the North Atlantic; and in ethnic American, postcolonial…
Through readings of elegies, self-elegies, war poems and the blues, this book covers a wide range of poets, including Thomas Hardy, Wilfred Owen, Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, W.H. Auden, Sylvia…
Postcolonial novelists such as Salman Rushdie and V.S. Naipaul are widely celebrated, yet the achievements of postcolonial poets have been strangely neglected. This work argues that postcolonial poets have also…
A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.
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Jahan Ramazani (University of Virginia)
What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system - suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse, in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. In this…
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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…
Suitable for students, scholars, and poets on various aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more, this book reflects changes in literary and cultural…
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