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Shortlisted for the 2021 BSLS Book Prize Genomic technologies have had a profound impact on understandings of what it means to be human and our links to the world we inhabit, and on practices of inhabiting the world. This open access book considers this impact across a range of literary forms, cultural practices, and political imaginaries, and argues that new descriptions of biological value introduced through practices of genomic sequencing from the late 1970s registered a broader crisis of narrative form. Examining a wide range of texts by Doris Lessing, Samuel Delany, Boris and Arkady Strugatsky, Kir Bulychev, Kazuo Ishiguro, Saidiya Hartman, Yaa Gyasi, Svetlana Alexievich, and Jeff VanderMeer, Narrative in the Age of the Genome casts new light on the intersections of genomics with politics of racism, sexuality, labour and gender, neoliberal economics and environmental crisis. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Wellcome Trust

Literary studies: from c 1900 --- -Literary theory --- Science fiction --- literature and science --- genetics --- biology --- Doris Lessing --- Samuel Delany --- Boris Strugatsky --- Arkady Strugatsky --- Kir Bulychev --- Kazuo Ishiguro --- Saidiya Hartman --- Yaa Gyasi --- Svetlana Alexievich --- Jeff VanderMeer

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Participating in the reframing of literary studies, Cosmopolitan Fictions identifies, as "cosmopolitan fiction", a genre of global literature that investigates the ethics and politics of complex and multiple belonging. The fictions studied by Katherine Stanton represent and revise the global histories of the past and present, including the "indigenous or native" narratives that are, in Homi Bhabha's words, "internal to" national identity itself. The works take as their subjects : European unification, the human rights movement, the AIDS epidemic, the new South Africa. And they test the infinite demands for justice against the shifting borders of the nation, rethinking habits of feeling, modes of belonging and practices of citizenship for the global future.

820 <100> --- #KOHU:CANADIANA --- 820 <100> Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- Engelse literatuur: Commonwealth --- Ishiguro, Kazuo, --- Kincaid, Jamaica --- Commonwealth fiction (English) --- English fiction --- Ethics in literature --- Politics and literature --- Social change in literature --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- History and criticism --- History --- Political aspects --- Coetzee, J. M., --- Ondaatje, Michael, --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael, --- Richardson, Elaine Potter --- カズオイシグロ, --- Isiguro, Kadzuo, --- Исигуро, Кадзуо, --- Īshīgūrū, Kāzūʼū, --- ايشيگورو، كازوئو، --- Kazuo Ishiguro, --- イシグロカズオ, --- 石黑一雄, --- 石黒一雄, --- イシグロ, カズオ, --- カズオ・イシグロ, --- Ishiguro, Kashuo, --- Coetzee, John M., --- Кутзее, Дж. М., --- Kutzee, Dzh. M., --- קוטזי, ג׳. מ., --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл, --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ethics in literature. --- Social change in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael‏ --- Ishiguro, Kazuo --- Coetzee, John Maxwell M. --- Coetzee, J. M. --- Coetzee, J.M. --- Coetzee, John M. --- Кутзее, Дж. М. --- Kutzee, Dzh. M. --- Кутзее, Джон Максвелл --- Kutzee, Dzhon Maksvell --- Ondaatje, Michael --- Ondaatje, Philip Michael

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From the UK Poet Laureate and bestselling translator, a spirited book that demystifies and celebrates the art of poetry todayIn A Vertical Art, acclaimed poet Simon Armitage takes a refreshingly common-sense approach to an art form that can easily lend itself to grand statements and hollow gestures. Questioning both the facile and obscure ends of the poetry spectrum, he offers sparkling new insights about poetry and an array of favorite poets.Based on Armitage’s public lectures as Oxford Professor of Poetry, A Vertical Art illuminates poets as varied as Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Marianne Moore, W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, A. R. Ammons, and Claudia Rankine. The chapters are often delightfully sassy in their treatment, as in “Like, Elizabeth Bishop,” in which Armitage dissects—and tallies—the poet’s predilection for similes. He discusses Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, poetic lists, poetry and the underworld, and the dilemmas of translating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Armitage also pulls back the curtain on the unromantic realities of making a living as a contemporary poet, and ends the book with his own list of “Ninety-Five Theses” on the principles and practice of poetry.An appealingly personal book that explores the volatile and disputed definitions of poetry from the viewpoint of a practicing writer and dedicated reader, A Vertical Art makes an insightful and entertaining case for the power and potential of poetry today.

English poetry. --- A Little Help. --- A Song to David. --- A. E. Housman. --- Adage. --- Allen Ginsberg. --- Anna Akhmatova. --- Apathy. --- Barry Hines. --- Blank verse. --- Bob and wheel. --- Book. --- Cleanness. --- Conceit. --- Confessional writing. --- Creative writing. --- Cymbeline. --- Dark Night of the Soul. --- Death of a Naturalist. --- Diary. --- Dramatic monologue. --- Dream vision. --- Edgar Allan Poe. --- Edward Hirsch. --- Elizabeth Bishop. --- Erica Jong. --- Erudition. --- Essay. --- Excursus. --- Extended metaphor. --- Fart. --- Fear of Flying (novel). --- Fuck. --- Goblin Market. --- Hilary Mantel. --- How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix. --- Howl and Other Poems. --- Hyperbole. --- Imagism. --- In Parenthesis. --- Incorruptibility. --- J. R. R. Tolkien. --- Jargon. --- John Wain. --- Kazuo Ishiguro. --- Kenneth Koch. --- Leonard Cohen. --- Libido. --- Literary fiction. --- Lord Alfred Douglas. --- Lyrical Ballads. --- Man of the People. --- Maurice Riordan. --- Melodrama. --- Mutability (poem). --- Narcissism. --- Necromancy. --- Of Mice and Men. --- Orwellian. --- Pararhyme. --- Pen name. --- Peter Reading. --- Philip Larkin. --- Phrenology. --- Poetic diction. --- Poetry. --- Pun. --- R. S. Thomas. --- Ray Bradbury. --- Rhyme. --- Robert Burns. --- Robert Conquest. --- Robert Frost. --- Romanticism. --- Round Table. --- Sayre's law. --- Self-help book. --- Sensationalism. --- Simile. --- Skunk Hour. --- Sonnet 23. --- Ted Hughes. --- The Anthologist. --- The Faerie Queene. --- The Female Eunuch. --- The Grand Budapest Hotel. --- The Squire's Tale. --- Thom Gunn. --- Thomas Nashe. --- To His Coy Mistress. --- W. H. Auden. --- W. S. Graham. --- Walker Evans. --- Wallace Stevens. --- Walter Savage Landor. --- Way Out (TV series). --- Wessex Poems and Other Verses. --- Wilfred Owen. --- William Blake. --- World to come.