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Zusatztext Informationen zum Autor Zoë Skoulding is Lecturer in the School of English at Bangor University, UK, and has been Editor of the international quarterly Poetry Wales since 2008. She is a poet whose recent collections of poems include Remains of a Future City (2008), long-listed for Wales Book of the Year 2009, and The Mirror Trade (2004) Klappentext This book focuses on the role of the city, and its processes of mutual transformation, in poetry by experimental women writers. Readings of their work are placed in the context of theories of urban space, while new visions of the contemporary city and its global relationships are drawn from their innovations in language and form. Zusammenfassung This book focuses on the role of the city! and its processes of mutual transformation! in poetry by experimental women writers. Readings of their work are placed in the context of theories of urban space! while new visions of the contemporary city and its global relationships are drawn from their innovations in language and form. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: LOCATION 1. Address and Rhythm PART II: VISION, POWER AND KNOWLEDGE 2. Alice Notley: Disobedient Cities 3. Lisa Samuels: Unknown Cities PART III: LANGUAGE AND LOCALITY 4. Geraldine Monk's Restless Soil 5. Ágnes Lehóczky and the Palimpsestic City PART IV: POLIS 6. Erín Moure's Irruptive Citizenship 7. Lisa Robertson: Prosody of the Polis PART V: ACTS OF ATTENTION 8. Against Background: Reframings of the City 9. Performance and Absence in the Heterotopian City Conclusion
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Acknowledgements Introduction PART I: LOCATION 1. Address and Rhythm PART II: VISION, POWER AND KNOWLEDGE 2. Alice Notley: Disobedient Cities 3. Lisa Samuels: Unknown Cities PART III: LANGUAGE AND LOCALITY 4. Geraldine Monk's Restless Soil 5. Ágnes Lehóczky and the Palimpsestic City PART IV: POLIS 6. Erín Moure's Irruptive Citizenship 7. Lisa Robertson: Prosody of the Polis PART V: ACTS OF ATTENTION 8. Against Background: Reframings of the City 9. Performance and Absence in the Heterotopian City Conclusion
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