| The Works of Tomas Tranströmer: The Universality of Poetry Contributor(s): Lim, Lee Ching (Author) |
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ISBN: 1604979690 ISBN-13: 9781604979695 Publisher: Cambria Press OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Scandinavian - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 839.717 |
| LCCN: 2016054788 |
| Series: Cambria Contemporary Literature, Film, & Theory |
| Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.24 lbs) 268 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Scandinavian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Nobel laureate Tomas Transtr mer (1931-2015) is one of Sweden's most important writers. He is also one of the most influential figures in contemporary world literature. His career spanned fifty years, and thirteen collections of poetry, which include 170 poems. His poems have been translated into more than 60 languages, including Chinese, Japanese, Persian and Malayalam. Among the array of awards that he has received are the Neustadt International Prize for Literature (1990), the Swedish Academy Nordic Prize (1991), the Griffin Poetry Prize (2007), and the Nobel Prize for Literature (2011). In Transtr mer's writing, there is an authentic relationship that bridges poetic articulation and the processes of critical interpretation. It is one that hinges on the equilibrium between experience and expectation. The poetry shows tremendous control and balance. It informs an entire system of considering individual and collective perceptions, which corresponds with the terrain of phenomenological apprehensions. The importance of Transtr mer's work is the universality that the poetry attains. In this first book-length study of Tomas Transtr mer's work, in English, Lim Lee Ching takes on the massive task of scrutinizing all of Transtr mer's poems.This study deals with the wide variety of ideas and issues that the poet deals with over the course of his long career, in a manner that befits their gravitas. This book is a return to the critical tradition; it provides a poem-by-poem approach to the Transtr mer corpus. This book reveals how much we have to learn from Tomas Transtr mer. This book is an important addition to all poetry, Modernist studies and Scandinavian literature collections. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lim, Lee Ching: - Lim Lee Ching is a senior lecturer of literature at SIM University, Singapore. He holds a PhD from the National University of Singapore, and a BA from the University of London. Dr. Lim's recent publications include contributions to Global Encounters: Cross-Cultural Representations of Taiwan and American Modernist Poetry and the Chinese Encounter. He has published in several journals such as Moving Worlds and The Journal of English and American Studies. Dr. Lim is also the founding editor of the Singapore Review of Books. |