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This volume examines the relationship between poetic language and place in the work of Paul Muldoon. Through a close reading of the formal and stylistic aspects of his poems, the book explores the question of how poetry as an art form can be engaged to map the complex exchanges between language and the material, phenomenal, personal and social dimensions of our sense of place. In particular, it demonstrates how various forms of repetition and return, in language and memory, are crucial to Muldoon’s approach to place and landscape. Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of the poet’s work: the naming of place; the genre of the long poem; poetry, music and nostalgia; and, finally, the place of poetry in the information age.



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CONTENTS: Introduction: Poetics and Place – Mapping the Territory: Muldoon in Critical Context – Place, Naming and Textual Cartographies – «All too familiar»: Topographies of Crisis in Muldoon’s Long Poems – «Slight Return»: Place, Music and Nostalgia – The Place of Poetry in the Information Age: Things Worth Knowing?

‘Slight Return’: Paul Muldoon’s Poetics of Place

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      Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 29/11/2016
      ISBN13: 9783034319867, 978-3034319867
      ISBN10: 303431986X

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      This volume examines the relationship between poetic language and place in the work of Paul Muldoon. Through a close reading of the formal and stylistic aspects of his poems, the book explores the question of how poetry as an art form can be engaged to map the complex exchanges between language and the material, phenomenal, personal and social dimensions of our sense of place. In particular, it demonstrates how various forms of repetition and return, in language and memory, are crucial to Muldoon’s approach to place and landscape. Each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of the poet’s work: the naming of place; the genre of the long poem; poetry, music and nostalgia; and, finally, the place of poetry in the information age.



      Table of Contents
      CONTENTS: Introduction: Poetics and Place – Mapping the Territory: Muldoon in Critical Context – Place, Naming and Textual Cartographies – «All too familiar»: Topographies of Crisis in Muldoon’s Long Poems – «Slight Return»: Place, Music and Nostalgia – The Place of Poetry in the Information Age: Things Worth Knowing?

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