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Series:   Elements in Poetry and Poetics

Somewhere Else in the Market

An Essay on the Poetry of J. H. Prynne

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2023

Joe Luna
Joe Luna
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University of Surrey

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This Element develops a close reading of 'Britain's leading late modernist poet', J. H. Prynne. Examining the political and literary contexts of Prynne's work of the 1980s, the Element offers an intervention into the existing scholarship on Prynne through close attention to the ways in which his poems respond to the social and political forces that define both modern Britain and the wider world of financialized capitalism.
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poetrylate modernismmodernismEnglish literatureJ. H. Prynne
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Series: Elements in Poetry and Poetics
Online ISBN: 9781009345019
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication: 31 August 2023

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