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Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry

Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry

Roberts, Neil

Hardcover

Series: Longman Studies in Twentieth Century Literature

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 1138836508
ISBN13: 9781138836501
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 1 2014
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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