TY  - BOOK
AU  - Anne Karhio
PY  - 2017
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1662-9094
SN  - 9781787072275
TI  - ‘Slight Return’
T2  - Paul Muldoon’s Poetics of Place
DO  - 10.3726/b10424
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1109692
N2  - 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.
KW  - Irish poetry, Literature and place, Space, Contemporary poetry
LA  - English
ER  -