Poem Unlimited : New Perspectives on Poetry and Genre

Questions of genres as well as their possible definitions, taxonomies, and functions have been discussed since antiquity. Even though categories of genre today are far from being fixed, they have for decades been upheld without question. The goal of this volume is to problematize traditional definitions of poetic genres and to situate them in a broader socio-cultural, historical, and theoretical context. The contributions encompass numerous methodological approaches (including hermeneutics, poststructuralism, reception theory, cultural studies, gender studies), periods (Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism), genres (elegy, sonnet, visual poetry, performance poetry, hip hop) as well as languages and national literatures. From this interdisciplinary and multi-methodological perspective, genres, periods, languages, and literatures are put into fruitful dialogue, new perspectives are discovered, and suggestions for further research are provided.No Cover Page. Contents Poetry and Genre: An Introduction Canonic Genres Reconsidered Genre and Archive Fever in Romantic Poetry: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” and the Sonnet Contesting and Continuing the Romantic Lyric: Eavan Boland and Kathleen Jamie Mystic Poetry Across the Ocean: Reconciling Persian Sufi Poetry and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass The Dragon in the Gate: Modernism as a Challenge to Contemporary Poetic Genres “Now it’s failed”: The Sonnet Form in the Poetry of Philip Larkin The Politics of Genre Possibilities, Responsibilities: On Poetic Genres and Political Poiesis Murderous Minds: A Narratological Approach to Poems on Perpetrators “I Have Always Aspired to a More Spacious Form”: Czesław Miłosz’s Reflection on Poetic Genres in American Exile “They kept shifting shapes”: Derek Walcott’s Omeros and its Fluid Genre Diversifying the Genre: Postmodern Strategies in Patience Agbabi’s (Performance) Poetry Resisting Genrefication: Gender and Genre in Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze’s The Fifth Figure Genre and Mediality Crossing Genre and Media Boundaries: Poetry in Fantastic Literary Narratives and Their Film Adaptations Re-erecting Genre Distinctions?: The Sound Recordings of William Carlos Williams’s Paterson and John Montague’s The Rough Field Poetry to Music: Gil Scott-Heron’s Intermedial Performance Aesthetics The Intermedial Poetry of Rap: Words, Sounds, and Music Videos Grime Poetry: Black British Rap Lyric(s) in the Twenty-First Century Notes on Contributors Index