Overview
- Features archival and new material written by Forrest-Thomson
- Revitalizes the small body of criticism on Forrest-Thomson’s work in light of contemporary theory
- Highlights the connections between Forrest-Thomson’s work and developments in modernist and affect studies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (MPCC)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- French structuralism
- twentieth-century British literary studies
- F. R. Leavis
- William Empson
- poststructuralism
- models of language
- debates on twentieth-century poetic form
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Donald Davie
- Veronica Forrest-Thomson and literary debate
- theoretics of poetry
- Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry
- women in literary tradition
- twentieth-century female poet
- female modernist poet
- Dada
- Influence of nineteenth-century poetry on modernists
- Stéphane Mallarmé’s
- poetic convention
- British and Irish Literature
About this book
This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics. Gareth Farmer explores Forrest-Thomson’s relationship to the conflicting models of literary criticism in the twentieth century such as the close-reading models of F.R Leavis and William Empson, postructuralist models, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Written by the leading scholar on Forrest-Thomson’s work, this study explores Forrest-Thomson’s published work as well as unpublished materials from the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive. Drawing on close readings of Forrest-Thomson’s writings, this study argues that her work enables us reevaluate literary-critical history and suggests new paradigms for the literary aesthetics and poetics of the future.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Gareth Farmer is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bedfordshire, UK and a poet. He has written essays on a range of modern and contemporary experimental writers and on literary and critical theory. He is the Senior Academic Consultant to the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive at Girton College Library, Cambridge.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Veronica Forrest-Thomson
Book Subtitle: Poet on the Periphery
Authors: Gareth Farmer
Series Title: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62722-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62721-2Published: 24 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87378-7Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62722-9Published: 11 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6052
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6060
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 219
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature, British and Irish Literature