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Author Sabbagh, Omar, author.

Title Reading Fiona Sampson : a study in contemporary poetry and poetics / Omar Sabbagh
Published London : Anthem Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 187 pages)
Contents Cover -- Front Matter -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- About the Author -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapters Int-Appendix -- Introduction -- What This Book Is Not -- What This Book Is -- Fiona Sampson: A Brief Biographical Reconnaissance -- Chapter 1 Hearthsides And Hospices -- An Editor's Poetics: On Fiona Sampson as Editor and Curator -- Introduction: Notes on the editorial career -- Editor, salvager -- A calling to a calling together of things -- Hospitable Words, Or, Care for Idiosyncrasy
Fiona Sampson on creative writing in health and social care -- Chapter 2 From The Looking Glass To The Lamp -- Into the Looking Glass: Fiona Sampson as Poet and Critic from 2005-2007 -- Introduction -- A possible framework, or, a framework of possibilities -- Reflexivity and embodiment -- Into the looking glass -- Coda: Wits at mo(u)rning -- Homely Duplicities: Reading Fiona Sampson's Rough Music -- Haunting Ambivalence: Reading Fiona Sampson's Coleshill -- Introduction: a genealogy of shadows -- Haunting ambivalence -- Ways of Empathy: Reading Fiona Sampson's The Catch
Introduction: Catching grace -- The ways of empathy -- Conclusion: Dwelling, or, one art -- Falling into Hope: Reading Fiona Sampson's Come Down -- Introduction: Successful cubism perhaps -- Regulative ideals, or, knowing and unknown -- Some searching mythoi -- Falling into hope -- Chapter 3 Prose Animations -- Animating Places: Reading Fiona Sampson's Limestone Country beneath a Durrellian lens -- Introductions -- Synesthesias -- Connoisseur-ships and conserv-atives -- Conclusions: from 'Parish Map' to 'Jerusalem' or, closure and exile
Animating Instruments, Or, the Creative Artist as Biographer: On Fiona Sampson's In Search of Mary Shelley -- Introduction: Method and intention, or, a new biography -- Portraiture of the real -- History in the making -- Conclusion: A writing-cure? -- Chapter 4 For The Love Of Music -- Literary Friendship(s), Or, 'trying, to get closer ... ': On Fiona Sampson's Beyond the Lyric -- Introduction: Content of the form -- Inside Beyond the Lyric: Fiona Sampson's poetics on poetic form -- Conclusion -- Expanding the Formal Project: On Fiona Sampson's Lyric Cousins -- Introduction: Beginnings and ends
Grace notes, or, music lessons and beyond -- A newer community: On Lyric Cousins -- Conclusion Democracy and Excellence -- Appendix: Inaugural Wellcome Trust Annual Public Mike White Memorial Lecture, June 14, 2016 -- Seminal Publication of Professor Fiona Sampson's 'A Speaking Likeness: Poetry Within Health and Social Care' -- End Matter -- Selected Bibliography -- Introduction -- Hearthsides and Hospices -- From the Looking Glass to the Lamp -- Prose Animations -- For the Love of Music -- Appendix -- Index
Summary Integrating analysis and a honed interpretation of the near-total gamut of the oeuvre to-date of Professor Fiona Sampson, the book synthesizes its rigorous discussions of the poetry, prose in different genres, and literary practices of Professor Sampson over a decades-long and much-lauded literary career to date. Including biographical insights, the book goes on to show how the oeuvre of a major contemporary poet and writer evinces a vital literary intelligence and a vision of literary practice on and for the contemporary literary scene
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO; viewed July 7, 2020)
Subject Sampson, Fiona -- Criticism and interpretation
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781785274190
1785274198