Broken English/Breaking English: A Study of Contempoarary Poetries in English

Broken English/Breaking English: A Study of Contempoarary Poetries in English

by Rob Jackaman
Broken English/Breaking English: A Study of Contempoarary Poetries in English

Broken English/Breaking English: A Study of Contempoarary Poetries in English

by Rob Jackaman

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Overview

Broken English/Breaking English discusses the work of some prominent contemporary poets writing in English, such as Seamus Heaney, Douglas Dunn, and Robert Crawford. It examines the challenges to a poetic discourse that was claimed in immediately post-Second World War England to be ‘pure’ and ‘English.’

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781611472639
Publisher: University Press Copublishing Division
Publication date: 10/01/2003
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments7
1.Introductory Discussion: Poetry and Purity (and Other Fictions)11
2.Gentility and Its Alternatives30
3.Gendered Spaces and the New Poetry70
Sylvia Plath (and Ted Hughes): A Question of Size70
Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck86
Carol Ann Duffy on being "Foreign"98
4.Ethnic Spaces in the Empire of Words111
5."English" across the Gaelic Frontiers145
Seamus Heaney and the "scop's / twang"147
"Barbarians" North of the Border: Scotland and Language Invasion170
6.Colony / Dominion: Writing Back196
7.Conclusion: The "matter of England / ... the matter with England"?254
Notes273
Bibliography299
Index309
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