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This book addresses the connection between political themes and literary form in the most recent Argentine poetry. Ben Bollig uses the concepts of “lyric” and “state” as twin coordinates for both an assessment of how Argentinian poets have conceived a political role for their work and how poems come to speak to us about politics. Drawing on concepts from contemporary literary theory, this striking study combines textual analysis with historical research to shed light on the ways in which new modes of circulation help to shape poetry today. ** Review “Ben Bollig’s book, on the recent political turn in Contemporary Argentine poetry, is at once authoritative, immensely knowledgeable, and readable. Its strength lies in a unique combination of skills: a well-digested and unobtrusive understanding of Latin American Cultural Studies; a confidently detailed grasp of Argentine politics; extensive research on circumstances of production, circulation, networks, and genre; and, crucially, close, intelligently contextualized, and subtle textual analysis of the works of five poets.” (Steven Boldy, Professor of Latin American Literature, University of Cambridge, UK) “Ben Bollig poses a grand ques

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Author

Ben Bollig

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US, New York

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137596734

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Poetry, History