Andrea Brady

Poetry and Bondage (eBook, ePUB)

A History and Theory of Lyric Constraint

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Poetry and Bondage is a groundbreaking and comprehensive study of the history of poetic constraint. For millennia, poets have compared verse to bondage - chains, fetters, cells, or slavery. Tracing this metaphor from Ovid through the present, Andrea Brady reveals the contributions to poetics of people who are actually in bondage. How, the book asks, does our understanding of the lyric - and the political freedoms and forms of human being it is supposed to epitomise - change, if we listen to the voices of enslaved and imprisoned poets? Bringing canonical and contemporary poets into dialogue, from Thomas Wyatt to Rob Halpern, Emily Dickinson to M. NourbeSe Philip, and Phillis Wheatley to Lisa Robertson, the book also examines poetry that emerged from the plantation and the prison. This book is a major intervention in lyric studies and literary criticism, interrogating the whiteness of those disciplines and exploring the possibilities for committed poetry today.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108997515
• Artikelnr.: 66183903

Autorenporträt

Andrea Brady is Professor of Poetry, School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London. Her books include English Funerary Elegy in the Seventeenth Century (2006), The Blue Split Compartments (2021), The Strong Room (2016), Cut from the Rushes (2013), Mutability (2012), and Wildfire (2010). She has held fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust and the National Humanities Center, and performed throughout Europe, Canada, the United States, Lebanon, and Chile.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Fetters of Verse; Part I. Lyric Cells: 1. The Music of
Fetters: Thomas Wyatt and the Beginnings of English Carceral Lyric; 2. The
Ligature: Rob Halpern's Common Place and the Limits of Desire; 3. Each in
Their Separate Hell: Solitary Confinement in the Long Nineteenth Century;
4. Hours of Lead: The Modern US Prison, Segregation and Solidarity; Part
II. The Songs of Slavery: 3. Bind Me - I Still Can Sing: Emily Dickinson at
the Boundaries of Lyric; 4. The Story that Cannot Be Told: M. Nourbese
Philip's Zong!, from Form to Performance; 5. The Sound Came from Everywhere
and Nowhere: African-American Song as Lyric Work; 6. Singing at the Window:
New Criticism and the Evolution of Lyric; Part III. Pleasures and
Ornaments: 9. A New Made Wound: Sadomasochistic Triumphs and Missing Feet
in Ovid's Elegies; 10. The Ecstatic Lash of the Poetic Line: Swinburne,
Hopkins, and the Pleasures of Bondage; 11. Soft Architecture: Lisa
Robertson and Bondage as Ornament; 12. Silken Fetters: Phillis Wheatley and
Ornament as Bondage.