Emily Taylor Merriman, Adrian Grafe

Intimate Exposure

Essays on the Public-Private Divide in British Poetry Since 1950

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Produktbeschreibung

The ever-shifting boundaries of the public and private spheres have exerted strong, though often subtle, pressures on modern life. This collection of 14 critical essays analyzes how British poetry has interacted with the public-private divide since the middle of the twentieth century. In their approach to this central but contested aspect of modern life, the essays suggest new ways not only of approaching a poem but of thinking about what gives a poem its linguistic, textual, and performative singularity. The collection discusses a wide range of poets, including Tony Harrison, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill, and Ted Hughes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 393g
• ISBN-13: 9780786442218
• ISBN-10: 0786442212
• Artikelnr.: 28179747

Autorenporträt

Former English professor Emily Taylor Merriman lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments     
Introduction
Adrian Grafe and Emily Taylor Merriman     
I. STATING THE CASE
1. Poetry as "Open Diagnosis"
Marc Porée     
II. STRICTLY PUBLIC?
2. Public Faces in Private Places: Messianic Privacy in Cambridge Poetry
Robert Archambeau     
3. Ted Hughes as Poet Laureate: The Beast and the Sovereign
Laurel Peacock     
4. R.S. Thomas: Poet of the Threshold
Daniel Szabo     
5. Performing, Transforming, and Changing the Question: Patience
Agbabi-Poet Enough!
Catherine Murphy     
6. Strictly Private? Stephen Romer's "Les Portes de la Nuit"
Adrian Grafe     
III. HEANEY AND THE PRIVATENESS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION
7. Joseph Brodsky and Seamus Heaney in the Birch Grove of
Daniella Jancsó     
8. "We men ... must vanish"-Heaney's Wordsworth: Toward the Configuration
of an Event Form
Pascale Guibert     
9. "Imagined within the gravitational pull of the actual": The Fusion of
the Private and the Public in Seamus Heaney's Poetics
Torsten Caeners     
IV. THE NORTH, THE NATION, AND THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE DIVIDE
10. "Inwardness" and the "quest for a public poetry" in the works of Tony
Harrison
Cécile Marshall     
11. Private Voice and Public Discourse: A Poetics of Northern Dialect
Claire Hélie     
12. Public or Private Nation: Poetic Form and National Consciousness in the
Poetry of Tony Harrison and Geoffrey Hill
Carole Birkan-Berz     
13. Geoffrey Hill: "A public nuisance"
Emily Taylor Merriman     
V. TAKING STOCK : FROM PERSONAL ENCOUNTER TO RITUAL
14. The Public Intimacy of the Poetry of Sorrow
Catherine Phillips     
About the Contributors     
Index