Narrative and voice in postwar poetry
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Narrative and voice in postwar poetry
（Studies in twentieth century literature）
Longman, 1999
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-203) and index
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: ppr ISBN 9780582233508
Description
Poetry in English since the Second World War has produced a number of highly original narrative works, as diverse as Derek Walcott's Omeros, Ted Hughes' Gaudete and Anne Stevenson's Correspondences. At the same time, poetry in general has been permeated by narrative features, particularly those linguistic characteristics that Mikhail Bakhtin considered peculiar to the novel, and which he termed "dialogic". This book examines the narrative and dialogic elements in the work of a range of poets from Britain, America, Ireland, Australia and the Caribbean, including poetry from the immediate postwar years to the contemporary, and novel-like narratives to personal lyrics. Its unifying theme is the way in which these poets, with such contrasting styles and from such varied backgrounds, respond to and creatively adapt the language-worlds, and hence the social worlds in which they live. The volume includes a detailed bibliography to assist students in further study, and will be a valuable resource to undergraduate and postgraduate students of contemporary poetry.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Art and Populism: Larkin from the Margins
- Chapter Two: Constructs for the Inarticulate: The Late Poems of Sylvia Plath
- Chapter Three: Crow in its Time: Trickster Mythology and Black Comedy
- Chapter Four: Hughes, Narrative and Lyric: an Analysis of Gaudete
- Chapter Five: Against Confessionalism: Anne Stevenson's Correspondences
- Chapter Six: Utterance and Resistance: Geoffrey Hill
- Chapter Seven: 'The Mulatto of Style': Derek Walcott and Hybridity
- Chapter Eight: Les Murray and the Vernacular Republic
- Chapter Nine: Language, Nationality and Gender: Seamus Heaney and an English Reader
- Chapter Ten: Peter Redgrove: Composition as Transaction
- Chapter Eleven: Tony Harrison: Author and Subject in The School of Eloquence and v.
- Chapter Twelve: 'Tother keeps chaingin is VOICE': Heteroglossia in Peter Reading
- Chapter Thirteen: Carol Ann Duffy: Outsideness and Nostalgia
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: csd ISBN 9780582233522
Description
This study of post-war poetry in English looks at how poetry has become more and more like the novel, and the reasons for this change. The text examines the narrative change in poetry through individual studies of 12 major English-language poets from Britain, America, Ireland, Australia and the Caribbean, including Derek Walcott, Ted Hughes and Anne Stevenson. The text uses narrative theory, especially Bakhtin, to provide detailed grounding in the analysis.
Table of Contents
- Art and populism - Larkin from the margins
- constructs for the inarticulate - the late poems of Sylvia Plath
- "Crow" in its time - trickster mythology and black comedy
- Hughs, narrative and lyric - an analysis of "Gaudete"
- against confessionalism - Anne Stevenson's "Correspondences"
- utterance and resistance - Geoffrey Hill
- "The Mulatto of Style" - Derek Walcott and hybridity
- Les Murray and the vernacular republic
- language, nationality and gender - Seamus Heaney and an English reader
- Peter Redgrove - composition as transaction
- Tony Harrison - author and subject in "The School of Eloquence and v.
- "tother keeps chaingin is VOICE" - heteroglossia in Peter Reading
- Carol Ann Duffy - outsideness and nostalgia.
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