The politics of speech in later twentieth-century poetry : local tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton / William Fogarty.
Fogarty, William, author.
2022
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Title The politics of speech in later twentieth-century poetry : local tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton / William Fogarty.
Author Fogarty, William, author.
ISBN 9783031078897 (electronic bk.)
3031078896 (electronic bk.)
9783031078880
3031078888
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07889-7
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-07889-7 doi
Call Number PN1021
Dewey Decimal Classification 808.1
Summary 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 books 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 four poets marshaled into the forms of poetry situate them at once in literary tradition, in local contexts, and in prevailing social constructs.
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Series Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics.
Available in Other Form Politics of speech in later twentieth-century poetry.
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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 Brookss Noncolloquial Local Speech
Chapter 4: Tongue-Tied Fighting: Tony Harrisons Linguistic Divisions
Chapter 5: Mortal Tongues: Lucille Cliftons Local-Speech Admonitions
Chapter 6: Coda: The Twenty-First Century Local-Speech Poem.

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