Book description
A Companion to Poetic Genre
brings together over 40 contributions from leading academics to provide
critical overviews of poetic genres and their modern adaptations.
- Covers a large range of poetic cultural traditions from Britain,
Ireland, North America, Japan and the Caribbea
- Summarises many genres from their earliest origins to their most
recent renderings
- The only full-length critical collection to deal with modern
adaptations of poetic genres
- Contributors include Bernard O'Donoghue, Stephen Burt,
Jahan Ramazani, and many other notable scholars of poetry and poetics
Dr Erik Martiny
teaches Anglophone literature and film in Aix-en-Provence, France. He
has published numerous articles on poets such as Peter Redgrove, Frank
O'Hara, Sylvia Plath, Paul Durcan, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon, Ted
Hughes and Derek Walcott. He has also written on the connections between
film and fiction, having recently edited a volume of essays entitled
Lolita: From Nabokov to Kubrick and Lyne
(2009), as well as the book
Intertextualité et Filiation Paternelle
dans la Poésie Anglophone
(2009).
