TY - BOOK ID - 17313037 TI - A transnational poetics PY - 2015 SN - 9780226703442 0226703444 9780226334974 9780226703374 022633497X PB - Chicago: University of Chicago press, DB - UniCat KW - Poetry KW - Poetics KW - Literature and globalization KW - Transnationalism in literature KW - Postcolonialism in literature KW - History and criticism KW - Transnationalism in literature. KW - Criticism KW - Globalization and literature KW - Globalization KW - Technique KW - Poetics. KW - Literature and globalization. KW - Postcolonialism in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - Poetry - History and criticism KW - Literature KW - Poésie KW - Poétique. KW - Littérature et mondialisation. KW - Transnationalisme dans la littérature. KW - Postcolonialisme dans la littérature. KW - Poetry. KW - Poetry, Modern KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - Philosophy. KW - Histoire et critique. KW - History KW - Littérature et globalisation KW - Transnationalisme KW - Postcolonialisme KW - Histoire et critique KW - Dans la littérature KW - Poésie KW - Littérature et globalisation KW - Dans la littérature UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17313037 AB - Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous-"stubbornly national," in T. S. Eliot's phrase, or "the most provincial of the arts," according to W. H. Auden. But in A Transnational Poetics, Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic imagination-in modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; in post-World War II North America and the North Atlantic; and in ethnic American, postcolonial, and black British writing. Cross-cultural exchange and influence are, he argues, among the chief engines of poetic development in the twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. Reexamining the work of a wide array of poets, from Eliot, Yeats, and Langston Hughes to Elizabeth Bishop, Lorna Goodison, and Agha Shahid Ali, Ramazani reveals the many ways in which modern and contemporary poetry in English overflows national borders and exceeds the scope of national literary paradigms. Through a variety of transnational templates-globalization, migration, travel, genre, influence, modernity, decolonization, and diaspora-he discovers poetic connection and dialogue across nations and even hemispheres. Exceptionally wide-ranging in scope yet rigorously focused on particulars, A Transnational Poetics demonstrates how poetic analysis can foster an aesthetically attuned transnational literary criticism that is at the same time alert to modernity's global condition. ER -