Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Poet on the Periphery Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics Series
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by the leading scholar on Forrest-Thomson?s work, this study explores Forrest-Thomson?s published work as well as unpublished materials from the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive.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.
1 Introduction – Poet on the Periphery.- 2 The Reluctant Radical: Identi-kit and Uncollected Early Poems.- 3 Cambridge, Verbal Hiccups and Iambics: twelve academic questions and Language-Games.- 4 Poetic Artifice and the Defence of Form.- 5 Simplicity and Complexity in the Quest for Style.- 6 Control and Excess in the Quest for ‘Writing Straight’.- 7 Coda – The Risks of ‘freedom, truth and skill’.
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.
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
Date de parution : 08-2018
Ouvrage de 219 p.
14.8x21 cm
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 15 jours).
Prix indicatif 89,66 €
Ajouter au panierDate de parution : 10-2017
Ouvrage de 219 p.
14.8x21 cm
Disponible chez l'éditeur (délai d'approvisionnement : 15 jours).
Prix indicatif 89,66 €
Ajouter au panierMots-clés :
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; B