Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Poetry and Genre: An Introduction 1
4. Canonic Genres Reconsidered
5. Genre and Archive Fever in Romantic Poetry: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” and the Sonnet 17
6. Contesting and Continuing the Romantic Lyric: Eavan Boland and Kathleen Jamie 31
7. Mystic Poetry Across the Ocean: Reconciling Persian Sufi Poetry and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass 47
8. The Dragon in the Gate: Modernism as a Challenge to Contemporary Poetic Genres 63
9. “Now it’s failed”: The Sonnet Form in the Poetry of Philip Larkin 83
10. The Politics of Genre
11. Possibilities, Responsibilities: On Poetic Genres and Political Poiesis 99
12. Murderous Minds: A Narratological Approach to Poems on Perpetrators 113
13. “I Have Always Aspired to a More Spacious Form”: Czesław Miłosz’s Reflection on Poetic Genres in American Exile 127
14. “They kept shifting shapes”: Derek Walcott’s Omeros and its Fluid Genre 139
15. Diversifying the Genre: Postmodern Strategies in Patience Agbabi’s (Performance) Poetry 155
16. Resisting Genrefication: Gender and Genre in Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze’s The Fifth Figure 171
17. Genre and Mediality
18. Crossing Genre and Media Boundaries: Poetry in Fantastic Literary Narratives and Their Film Adaptations 191
19. Re-erecting Genre Distinctions?: The Sound Recordings of William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and John Montague’s The Rough Field 209
20. Poetry to Music: Gil Scott-Heron’s Intermedial Performance Aesthetics 227
21. The Intermedial Poetry of Rap: Words, Sounds, and Music Videos 239
22. Grime Poetry: Black British Rap Lyric(s) in the Twenty-First Century 255
23. Notes on Contributors 271
24. Index 275