Poetry and the Sense of Reversal: Unsettling the Limits
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English & Comparative Literature Department
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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07124-8
Document Type
Research Article
Publication Title
Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Publication Date
1-1-2025
doi
10.1007/978-3-032-07124-8
Abstract
How does modern poetry from Donne to Ashbery provide occasions for rethinking the scope and limits of the literary canon? This question is not simply concerned with literature in English but addresses the problem of how texts transform the reader’s experience of literature in the wake of modernity. This study shows how an experience of absence is the starting point for a reversal that occurs whenever reading transforms an engagement with the world. The eight chapters that comprise this study offer revisionary readings of key poetic works and a new way of understanding the modern canon.
First Page
1
Last Page
162
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APA Citation
Melaney, W.
(2025). Poetry and the Sense of Reversal: Unsettling the Limits. Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Part F1098, 1–162.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07124-8
MLA Citation
Melaney, William D.
"Poetry and the Sense of Reversal: Unsettling the Limits." Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, vol. Part F1098, 2025, pp. 1–162.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-07124-8