Spatial Engagement With Poetry

Drawing from a broad range of contemporary British poets, including Thomas Kinsella, Kathleen Jamie, and Alice Oswald, this study examines the inherently spatial and affective nature of our engagement with poetry. Adding to the expanding field of geocritical studies, Yeung specifically discusses ideas of space and constructions of voice in 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.

Summary

Drawing from a broad range of contemporary British poets, including Thomas Kinsella, Kathleen Jamie, and Alice Oswald, this study examines the inherently spatial and affective nature of our engagement with poetry. Adding to the expanding field of geocritical studies, Yeung specifically discusses ideas of space and constructions of voice in poetry.

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“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)

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"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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.11.2015
• EAN: 9781349504046
• ISBN: 978-1-349-50404-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies; Geocriticism and Spatial Liter; Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies; Geocriticism and Spatial Liter
• Subjects: 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