Individuals

Dr Jacob Edmond

Lecturer in Contemporary Poetry, Dept. of English - University of Otago - 

Telephone: +64 3 479 7969
Address: Department of English
University of Otago
PO Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand

Research Interests:

English Language and Literature

20th century literature

Modern Languages

studies in language and literature / Asian
studies in language and literature / Russian, Slavonic and East European

New Zealand, American, Russian and modern Chinese literature, particularly modernist and postmodernist poetry; comparative poetics; translation theory; linguistics and literature; literary debates as sites for social and political debate; politics and literature; philosophy of literature; aesthetics and literary theory; modernism; postmodernism; the avant-garde.

Publications:

Ed., intro., and trans. (with Hilary Chung). Unreal City: A Chinese Poet in Auckland. By Yang Lian. Auckland: Auckland UP, 2006. 96pp.

“Dissidence and Accommodation: The Publishing History of Yang Lian from Today to Today.” The China Quarterly 185 (2006). 111-27.

“Lyn Hejinian and Russian Estrangement.” Poetics Today 27.1 (2006). 97-124.

“From Pathos to Parody: Ambivalent Antithesis and Echoes of ‘Vychožu odin ja na dorogu’ in ‘Obraz tvoj mučitel'nyj i zybkij’ and ‘Zolotoj’ from Osip Mandel'štam’s Kamen'.” Russian Literature 58.3-4 (2005): 357-373.

“Beyond Binaries: Rereading Yang Lian’s ‘Norlang’ and ‘Banpo.’” Journal of Modern Literature in Chinese 6.1 (2005): 152-69.

“Locating Global Resistance: The Landscape Poetics of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, Lyn Hejinian and Yang Lian.” AUMLA: Journal of the Australasian Universities Language & Literature Association 101 (2004): 71-98.

“The I as Such: Vladimir Maiakovskii’s Ia!” Australian Slavonic and East European Studies 16.1-2 (2002): 41-54.

“‘A Meaning Alliance’: Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Lyn Hejinian’s Poetics of Translation.” Slavic and East European Journal 46.3 (2002 [2003]): 551-63.

“Drawing Conclusions on Pushkin’s Evgenii Onegin and ‘Stantsionnyi smotritel'’ from Povesti Belkina.” New Zealand Slavonic Journal (1999): 51-61.

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