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Features archival and new material written by Forrest-Thomson
Revitalizes the small body of criticism on Forrest-Thomson’s work in light of contemporary theory
Highlights the connections between Forrest-Thomson’s work and developments in modernist and affect studies
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (MPCC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics. Gareth Farmer explores Forrest-Thomson’s relationship to the conflicting models of literary criticism in the twentieth century such as the close-reading models of F.R Leavis and William Empson, postructuralist models, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Written by the leading scholar on Forrest-Thomson’s work, this study explores Forrest-Thomson’s published work as well as unpublished materials from the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive. Drawing on close readings of Forrest-Thomson’s writings, this study argues that her work enables us reevaluate literary-critical history and suggests new paradigms for the literary aesthetics and poetics of the future.
Keywords
- French structuralism
- twentieth-century British literary studies
- F. R. Leavis
- William Empson
- poststructuralism
- models of language
- debates on twentieth-century poetic form
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Donald Davie
- Veronica Forrest-Thomson and literary debate
- theoretics of poetry
- Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry
- women in literary tradition
- twentieth-century female poet
- female modernist poet
- Dada
- Influence of nineteenth-century poetry on modernists
- Stéphane Mallarmé’s
- poetic convention
- British and Irish Literature
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Bedfordshire, Luton, United Kingdom
Gareth Farmer
About the author
Gareth Farmer is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bedfordshire, UK and a poet. He has written essays on a range of modern and contemporary experimental writers and on literary and critical theory. He is the Senior Academic Consultant to the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive at Girton College Library, Cambridge.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Veronica Forrest-Thomson
Book Subtitle: Poet on the Periphery
Authors: Gareth Farmer
Series Title: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62722-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62721-2Published: 24 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87378-7Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62722-9Published: 11 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6052
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6060
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 219
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, British and Irish Literature