Spatial Engagement With Poetry

"Through the idea of the vocalic space of the poem, alongside the poem 'as' and poem 'of' space, Spatial Engagement with Poetry re-establishes the voice and space as equally important, and necessarily interlinked, elements of poetic production and engagement. The study looks at ideas of space and constructions of voice in poetry through the inherently spatial processes of affective, vocalic, and critical identification and map-making we undergo in the acts of reading and voicing the poem. The study uses a multidisciplinary literary-critical methodology, combining broad attention to literary theory and poetics with the finer details of close reading individual poems. Examples are drawn from a broad range of poets, and particular attention paid to contemporary British poetry"--

List of contents

Introduction: The Map and the Voice PART I 1. Mapping 1: The Poem as Space 2. Interlude 1: scripturacontinuaconvivavoce 3. Mapping 2: The Poem of Space 4. Interlude 2: The Poem in Space 5. Mapping 3: Vocalic Space and Affective Engagement 6. Interlude 3: The Poetic Map, Vocalised PART II 7. Economies of Poetic Production: The Poetry of Thomas Kinsella 8. Landscapes of the Body: The Poetry of Kathleen Jamie 9. The Poetics of Intimate Perception: Mimi Khalvati 10. Of Passage and Process: Alice Oswald's Dart Coda: d'autres mappemondes

About the author

Heather H. Yeung is AHRC Memory Network Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the University of Roehampton, UK.

Report

"Spatial Engagement with Poetry is an important book in the field of literary geocriticism; its readings carefully explore the various spaces in the work of four significant contemporary poets and it provides a lively methodology that should be read by all serious geocritics." (Ahmed Badrideen, English Studies, Vol. 97 (6), 2016)

Product details

• Authors: H Yeung, H. Yeung, Heather H. Yeung
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.03.2015
• EAN: 9781137488367
• ISBN: 978-1-137-48836-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies; Geocriticism and Spatial Liter; Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies; Geocriticism and Spatial Liter
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; B, Poetry, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Poetry and Poetics, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature—History and criticism, Literary History, British literature, British and Irish Literature, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, poem;poetics;poetry;space