Somewhere Else in the Market - An Essay on the Poetry of J. H. Prynne

This Element develops a close reading of 'Britain's leading late modernist poet', J. H. Prynne. Examining the political and literary contexts of Prynne's work of the 1980s, the Element offers an intervention into the existing scholarship on Prynne through close attention to the ways in which his poems respond to the social and political forces that define both modern Britain and the wider world of financialized capitalism.

List of contents

1. For the future; 2. Philological collage; 3. Audible visions; 4. Strangled songs; 5. Somewhere else.

Summary

This Element develops a close reading of 'Britain's leading late modernist poet', J. H. Prynne. Examining the political and literary contexts of his work of the 1980s, the Element offers an intervention into the existing scholarship on Prynne.

Product details

• Authors: Joe Luna, Joe (University of Surrey) Luna, Luna Joe
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2023
• EAN: 9781009345040
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0934504-0
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Poetry and Poetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Modernism, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets