Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Poet on the Periphery

di Gareth Farmer (Autore)

Springer International Publishing AG, 2018

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by the leading scholar on Forrest-Thomson’s work, this study explores Forrest-Thomson’s published work as well as unpublished materials from the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive.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.

• Autore: Gareth Farmer
• Editore: Springer International Publishing AG
• Collana: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
• Anno: 2018
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 219 p.
• Dimensioni: 210 x 148 mm
• EAN: 9783319873787

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