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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
November 5, 2013
Pages
285
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226083735
ISBN-10
022608373X
Dimensions
0.75 by 5.75 by 8.75 in.
Weight
1 lbs.
Original list price
$75.00
Other format details
university press
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal systemââsuspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse,â in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in Poetry and Its Others, Jahan Ramazani reveals modern and contemporary poetryâs animated dialogue with other genres and discourses. Poetry generates rich new possibilities, he argues, by absorbing and contending with its near verbal relatives.
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Exploring poetryâs vibrant exchanges with other forms of writing, Ramazani shows how poetry assimilates features of prose fiction but differentiates itself from novelistic realism; metabolizes aspects of theory and philosophy but refuses their abstract procedures; and recognizes itself in the verbal precision of the law even as it separates itself from the lawâs rationalism. But poetryâs most frequent interlocutors, he demonstrates, are news, prayer, and song. Poets such as William Carlos Williams and W. H. Auden refashioned poetry to absorb the news while expanding its contexts; T. S. Eliot and Charles Wright drew on the intimacy of prayer though resisting its limits; and Paul Muldoon, Rae Armantrout, and Patience Agbabi have played with and against song lyrics and techniques. Encompassing a cultural and stylistic range of writing unsurpassed by other studies of poetry, Poetry and Its Others shows that we understand what poetry is by examining its interplay with what it is not.
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9780226083735 | details & prices | 285 pages | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $75.00
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Paperback
from Univ of Chicago Pr (November 5, 2013)
9780226083568 | details & prices | 285 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 0.50 in. | 0.80 lbs | List price $25.00
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