Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry by Neil Roberts (English) Paperback Book

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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 including Derek Walcott and Ted Hughes.

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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.

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A wide-ranging study of post-war poetry in English, which looks in detail at how poetry has become more and more like the novel, and explores the reasons for this change.

Back Cover

Back Cover Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature General Editor: Stan Smith Research Professor in Literary Studies, Nottingham Trent University This exciting series provides students of twentieth-century literature with some of the most advanced scholarly and critical work in the field in a lucid and accessible form. Volumes may focus on an individual author or literary movement or address critical and cultural themes and historical moments. The series assumes no particular critical line or theoretical tendency but aims to present the best writing on twentieth-century literature and culture by new and established critics in a way which reveals the remarkable diversity of modern critical approaches. Poetry in English since the Second World War has produced a number of highly original narrative works, as diverse as Derek Walcott

Author Biography

Neil Roberts is Professor at the University of Plymouth, UK. He is author of The Holocene: an Environmental History (Blackwell, 1989). His research interests are environmental history, with special reference to lake sediment systems. He is currently working on East African rift lakes, the Middle Atlas of Morocco, and Southwest Turkey.

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.

Long Description

Poetry in English since the Second World War has produced a number of highly original narrative works, as various as Derek Walcott's Omeros , Ted Hughes's Gaudete and Anne Stevenson's Correspondences . At the same time, poetry in general has been permeated by narrative features, particularly those linguistic characteristics that Mickhail Bakhtin considered peculiar to the novel, and which he termed 'dialogic'. This book examines the narrative and dialogic elements in a range of poets from the immediate post-war years to the contemporary, from Britain, America, Ireland, Australia and the Caribbean, and from novel-like narratives to personal lyrics. Its unifying theme is the way in which these poets, of such contrasting styles and background, respond to and creatively adapt the language-worlds, and hence the social worlds in which they live.

Details ISBN058223350X Author Neil Roberts Pages 216 Series Longman Studies In Twentieth Century Literature Year 1999 ISBN-10 058223350X ISBN-13 9780582233508 Format Paperback Publication Date 1999-03-08 Short Title NARRATIVE & VOICE -NOP/024 Language English Media Book DEWEY 821.914 Residence US Birth 1953 Imprint Longman Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations bibliography Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Place of Publication London DOI 10.1604/9780582233508 Audience College/Higher Education UK Release Date 1999-03-08 AU Release Date 1999-03-08 NZ Release Date 1999-03-08 We've got this

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