Poetry and Its Others - News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres

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 book, the author reveals modern and contemporary poetry's animated dialogue with other genres and discourses.

About the author

Jahan Ramazani is the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of four books, most recently of "A Transnational Poetics," also published by the University of Chicago Press. He lives in Charlottesville, VA.

Summary

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 book, the author reveals modern and contemporary poetry's animated dialogue with other genres and discourses.

Product details

• Authors: Jahan Ramazani, Jahan Ramazani, Jahan (University of Virginia) Ramazani
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2013
• EAN: 9780226083568
• ISBN: 978-0-226-08356-8
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets