Counterpoetics of Modernity : On Irish Poetry and Modernism by David Lloyd ...

Counterpoetics of ModernityOn Irish Poetry and Modernism\nAuthor(s): David Lloyd\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Edinburgh University Press\nISBN-13: 9781474489812, 978-1474489812\nSynopsis\nThis study puts contemporary Irish poetry in dialogue with major debates and concerns of European and American poetics. David Lloyd tracks the traits of Irish poetic modernism, from fragmentation to the suspicion of representation, to nineteenth-century responses to the rapid and unsettling effects of Irelands precocious colonial modernity, such as language loss and political violence. He argues that Irish poetrys inventiveness is driven by the need to find formal means to engage with historical conditions that take from the writer the customary certainties of cultural continuity, identity and aesthetic or personal autonomy, rather than by poetic innovation for its own sake. This reading of Irish poetry understands the innovative impetus that pe.