Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres
ISBN-13:
9780226083735
ISBN-10:
022608373X
Author:
Professor Jahan Ramazani
Publication date:
2013
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Hardcover
304 pages
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ISBN-13:
9780226083735
ISBN-10:
022608373X
Author:
Professor Jahan Ramazani
Publication date:
2013
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press
Format:
Hardcover
304 pages
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Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres (ISBN-13: 9780226083735 and ISBN-10: 022608373X), written by authors
Professor Jahan Ramazani, was published by University of Chicago Press in 2013.
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What is poetry? Often it is understood as a largely self-enclosed verbal system—“suspended from any mutual interaction with alien discourse,” in the words of Mikhail Bakhtin. But in Poetry and Its Others, Jahan Ramazani reveals modern and contemporary poetry’s animated dialogue with other genres and discourses. Poetry generates rich new possibilities, he argues, by absorbing and contending with its near verbal relatives. Exploring poetry’s 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 law’s rationalism. But poetry’s 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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