William Fogarty

The Politics of Speech in Later Twentieth-Century Poetry (eBook, PDF)

Local Tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783031078897
• Artikelnr.: 64699964

Autorenporträt

Inhaltsangabe

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Chapter 1: Introduction: Local Tongues.- Chapter 2: Troubled Tongues: Seamus Heaney and the Political Poetics of Speech.- Chapter 3: The Gwendolynian Tongue: Gwendolyn Brooks's Noncolloquial Local Speech.- Chapter 4: Tongue-Tied Fighting: Tony Harrison's Linguistic Divisions.- Chapter 5: Mortal Tongues: Lucille Clifton's Local-Speech Admonitions.- Chapter 6: Coda: The Twenty-First Century Local-Speech Poem.

Rezensionen

"Fogarty's book relies on poems to help us explore the political tensions that animate everyday language. ... The poems he chooses illuminate acutely political situations in ways that would challenge other kinds of expression. The Politics of Speech makes its case with an enviable dexterity of style and an easy reference to a large corpus of scholarship. There is, in addition, a rare and beautiful humanity that accompanies the scholarly humility, which is not a pose but an earnest trust in poetry" (Walt Hunter, Modern Philology, December 18, 2023)