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Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism

Dialogue and Estrangement

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  • © 1996

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  1. Ian Gregson

    1. University of Wales, Bangor, UK

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Ian Gregson
      Pages 1-11

  4. Estrangement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Estrangement and the Retro-Modernists

      • Ian Gregson
      Pages 127-132

    3. Edwin Morgan’s Metamorphoses

      • Ian Gregson
      Pages 133-150

    4. Christopher Middleton: Journeys Broken at the Threshold

      • Ian Gregson
      Pages 151-169

    5. Music of the Generous Eye: The Poetry of Roy Fisher

      • Ian Gregson
      Pages 170-191

    6. A Various Art: Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Denise Riley

      • Ian Gregson
      Pages 192-208

    7. John Ashbery and British Postmodernism

      • Ian Gregson
      Pages 209-237

    8. The Estranging of the Mainstream

      • Ian Gregson
      Pages 238-255

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 256-269
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Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism explores the fraught relationship between the poetry of the mainstream and kinds of modernist poetry that have had to make their way outside it. Mainstream poets like Paul Muldoon, James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy multiply voices and so draw on resources from the novel - Bakhtin's concept of the dialogic is therefore used to explain their techniques. By contrast, Shklovsky's concept of 'estrangement' is shown to be more useful in accounting for the radical experimentation of poets like Edwin Morgan, Christopher Middleton and Denise Riley. However, the book concludes by suggesting that - partly because of the influence of surrealism in women poets like Selima Hill and Jo Shapcott - the mainstream has recently been infiltrated by modernist and postmodernist estrangement effects.

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  • University of Wales, Bangor, UK

    Ian Gregson

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