Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity

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Manchester University Press, 2002 - Literary Criticism - 216 pages
Edwin Morgan is Scotland's major living poet, and Inventions of Modernity is the first book-length study of his work. Since the 1940s Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the conventional evolutions from Modernism to Postmodernism, creating instead a substantial body ofwriting that ranges from the sublime to the hilarious. Morgan develops radical and libertarian poetics in an encyclopaedia of forms; from Anglo-Saxon meter through sonnet-sequences to concrete poems, and including gay poetry, science fiction verse, and prize-winning translations into both Englishand Scots from numerous languages.
 

Contents

Apocalypse and after
14
A selffashioning Scot
31
From Glasgow to Mayakovsky
59
A cognitive mapping
82
Out in space
104
Reconfiguring subjectivity
137
Not fade away
169
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Colin Nicholson is Professor of Eighteenth Century and Modern Literature at the University of Edinburgh

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TitleEdwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity
AuthorColin Nicholson
PublisherManchester University Press, 2002
ISBN0719063604, 9780719063602
Length216 pages
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Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Literary Criticism / General
Poetry / General
  
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