Professor Jahan Ramazani Libri

Ideas, culture, and capital flow across national borders with unprecedented speed, but we tend not to think of poems as taking part in globalization. Jahan Ramazani shows that poetry has much to contribute to understanding literature in an extra-national frame. Indeed, the globality of poetry, he argues, stands to energize the transnational turn in the humanities. Poetry in a Global Age builds on Ramazani's award-winning A Transnational Poetics, a book that had a catalytic effect on literary studies. Ramazani broadens his lens to discuss modern and contemporary poems not only in relation to world literature, war, and questions of orientalism, but also in light of current debates over ecocriticism, translation studies, tourism, and cultural geography. He offers brilliant readings of postcolonial poets like Agha Shahid Ali, Lorna Goodison, and Daljit Nagra, as well as canonical modernists such as W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, and Marianne Moore. Ramazani shows that even when poetry seems locally rooted, its long memory of forms and words, its connections across centuries, continents, and languages, make it a powerful imaginative resource for a global age. This book makes a strong case for poetry in the future development of world literature and global studies.

Představa poezie jako kulturně homogenního a čistě národního fenoménu není udržitelná a Jahan Ramazani, profesor anglické literatury na University of Virginia, ukazuje, že přeshraniční výměna a interkulturní vlivy patří mezi hlavní motory básnického vývoje ve dvacátém a jednadvacátém století. Nově pohlíží na širokou škálu básníků, od Eliota, Yeatse a Langstona Hughese po Elizabeth Bishopovou, Lornu Goodisonovou a Aghu Shahida Aliho, a odhaluje způsoby, jakými moderní a současná poezie v angličtině překračuje národní hranice, utváří básnická spojení a umožňuje dialog nejen mezi národy, ale na globální úrovni také mezi polokoulemi.