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Alexandra Sequence

- Redmond, J: Alexandra Sequence

  • Format
  • Bog, paperback
  • Engelsk
  • 50 sider

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In The Alexandra Sequence John Redmond views contemporary urban life through the suggestive prism of the 'mummers play', a seasonal British folk-theatre staged in the streets and door-to-door. The book's title takes its name from an area of Liverpool, a city shaped by its recent history of trade and migration, still recovering after a long period of decline. Experiences of urban uprootedness and social precarity shape suburban livelihoods that are 'livid with accident'. Drawing on the two central themes of the mummers play - combat and resurrection - the poems reveal both dark and light parallels between the modern neighbourhood and medieval theatre: the carnivalesque zombie-drummers marching through a local park find their mirror-image in the daily disguises of life in a housing estate, or in the masked infractions of the 2011 England Riots. Mixing narrative and lyric, Redmond paints a neighbourhood of lively, unlikely references, from Juvenal to Tommy Cooper, Brueghel to indie rock.

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Detaljer
  • SprogEngelsk
  • Sidetal50
  • Udgivelsesdato01-09-2016
  • ISBN139781784102043
  • Forlag Carcanet Press Ltd
  • FormatPaperback
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  • Vægt119 g
  • Dybde0,9 cm
  • coffee cup img
    10 cm
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    13,8 cm
    21,6 cm

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