A Companion to Poetic Genre

Martiny, Erik (Editor)

Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture

1. Edition October 2011
660 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4443-3673-3

John Wiley & Sons

Short Description

This eagerly awaited companion features over 40 contributions from leading academics around the world, and offers critical overviews of numerous poetic genres. Covering a range of cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbean, amongst others, this valuable collection considers ancient genres such as the elegy, the ode, the ghazal and the ballad, before moving on to Medieval and Renaissance genres originally invented or codified by the Troubadours or poets who followed in their wake.

Further versions

A Companion to Poetic Genre brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations.
* Covers a large range of poetic cultural traditions from Britain, Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbea
* Summarises many genres from their earliest origins to their most recent renderings
* The only full-length critical collection to deal with modern adaptations of poetic genres
* Contributors include Bernard O'Donoghue, Stephen Burt, Jahan Ramazani, and many other notable scholars of poetry and poetics

Notes on Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I
Part II
Index

Dr Erik Martiny teaches Anglophone literature and film in Aix-en-Provence, France. He has published numerous articles on poets such as Peter Redgrove, Frank O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, Paul Durcan, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon, Ted Hughes and Derek Walcott. He has also written on the connections between film and fiction, having recently edited a volume of essays entitled Lolita: From Nabokov to Kubrick and Lyne (2009), as well as the book Intertextualité et Filiation Paternelle dans la Poésie Anglophone (2009).

E. Martiny, University of Aix-En-Provence, France