TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mortuza,Shamsad
TI  - The Figure of the Shaman in Contemporary British Poetry
SN  - 9781443865944
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Newcastle upon Tyne, England
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - English poetry
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Shamanism in literature
KW  - POETRY
KW  - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-201)
N2  - Acknowledgements; abstract; introduction; chapter one -- an unashamed shaman''s journey ; chapter two -- shamans, bards and prophets; chapter three -- the technicians of the sacred; chapter four -- the technicians of the body; conclusion; bibliography; This genealogical study focuses on the work of five contemporary British poets in order to locate them in a counter cultural tradition that is informed by strategic responses to 'state terrorism.' It identifies some historical moments of ruptures, such as the persecution of the Celtic druids by the Romans, the killing of the Welsh bards by Edward I, the appropriation of bardic materials by Romantic poets writing in a post-French Revolution era, and the beatnik response to a post-World War bip
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