书目名称 | The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry |
副标题 | Local Tongues in Hea |
编辑 | William Fogarty |
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概述 | Focuses on four major poets and their widely anthologized poems.Argues that local speech is an elemental transnational facet of twentieth-century poetry.Situates poems in literary tradition, in local |
丛书名称 | Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics |
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描述 | .The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry: Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton. argues that local speech became a central facet of English-language poetry in the second half of the twentieth century. It is based on a key observation about four major poets from both sides of the Atlantic: Seamus Heaney, Gwendolyn Brooks, Tony Harrison, and Lucille Clifton all respond to societal crises by arranging, reproducing, and reconceiving their particular versions of local speech in poetic form. The book’s overarching claim is that “local tongues” in poetry have the capacity to bridge aesthetic and sociopolitical realms because nonstandard local speech declares its distinction from the status quo and binds people who have been subordinated by hierarchical social conditions, while harnessing those versions of speech into poetic structures can actively counter the very hierarchies that would degrade those languages. The diverse local tongues of these fourpoets marshaled into the forms of poetry situate them at once in literary tradition, in local contexts, and in prevailing social constructs.. |
出版日期 | Book 2022 |
关键词 | Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Twentieth-Century Poetry; American Irish British Poetry; Tr |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07889-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-07891-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-07889-7Series ISSN 2634-6052 Series E-ISSN 2634-6060 |
issn_series | 2634-6052 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |