Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry
Does what is true depend on where you are? or, can we speak of a British culture which varies gradually over the 600 miles from one end of the island to the other, with currents gradually mutating and turning into their opposites as they cross such a distance? Any account of the matter must rapidly disclose the fact that where group A proclaims idea X, group B swiftly proclaims X to be untrue. Assimilation and dissimilation are the exuberant flows which make the mill of culture turn. The unbalanced local energies which gave birth to the central horror of possessive individualism, the Empire, and the State as war-machine, do not sound their tr…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84861-499-4
- EAN: 9781848614994
- Produktnummer: 20756017
- Verlag: Shearsman Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 318 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.8 cm 491 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 491
Über den Autor
Andrew Duncan was born in 1956 and brought up in the Midlands. He worked as a labourer (in England and Germany) after leaving school, and subsequently as a project planner with a telecoms manufacturer (1978-87), and as a programmer for the Stock Exchange (1988-91). He now works in the Civil Service and is based in Nottingham.
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