Lines of Resistance
Essays on British Poetry from Thomas Hardy to Linton Kwesi Johnson
Published on 12. April 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
250 pages
978-0-7864-6283-4 (ISBN)
Description
Resistance is a key concept for understanding the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and for approaching the poetry of the period. This collection of 15 critical essays explores how poetry and resistance interact, set against a philosophical, historical and cultural background. In the light of the upheavals of the age, and the changing perception of the nature of language, resistance is seen to lie at the core of poetic preoccupations, moving poetic language forward. From this perspective, the resistance of poetry is connected with the human call to solidarity, resilience, and, ultimately, meaning. The volume covers poetry from Hardy, Yeats and Auden, among others, to contemporary writers like Hugo Williams and Linton Kwesi Johnson.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Jefferson, NC
United States
Target group
Interest Age: From 18 years
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
notes, bibliographies, index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
415 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7864-6283-4 (9780786462834)
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Persons
Adrian Grafe is a professor of English at Artois University in France. He was an associate professor at the Sorbonne for 10 years, has published broadly on poetry, and was named a Fellow of the English Association in 2011. Jessica Stephens is an assistant professor of English at Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle University, where she teaches translation. Until the spring of 2010 she was co-director of the English Department at Angers University where she taught poetry and the translation of contemporary British poetry, and ran a Translation Studies MA program.
Content
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
(ADRIAN GRAFE and JESSICA STEPHENS)
Part I: From Constraint to Release
1. The Self-Resisting: Hardy's Ambivalent Evocation of Romantic Childhood
(GALIA BENZIMAN)
2. Hardy's Cunning in Form and Diction
(EMILIE LORIAUX)
3. "Minds" and "Manacles" in Late Lawrence
(ELISE BRAULT-DREUX)
4. Lawrence Between Resistance and Dissolution
(SARAH BOUTTIER)
Part II: Against the Odds
5. The Poem or the "Fierce Desire" to Live: Isaac Rosenberg and Robert Graves
(ANNE MOUNIC)
6. Resisting Theological Error as a Means of Political Salvation: Charles Williams' and Dorothy L. Sayers' Second World War Poetry
(SUZANNE BRAY)
7. Resilience and Regeneration: Four Quartets in French Translation
( JESSICA STEPHENS)
Part III: Northern Resistance
8. Basil Bunting: Resistance, History and Myth
(CHARLOTTE ESTRADE)
9. Ted Hughes and "That Built-In Resistance": Versions of the Calder Valley
(CLAIRE HELIE)
Part IV: The Celtic Strain
10. "The Embattled Stance": Late Yeats
(ELIZABETH MULLER)
11. W.B. Yeats and Resistance
(CATHERINE PHILLIPS)
12. Responding, Rewording and/or Resisting: Edwin Morgan
(SHONA M. ALLAN)
Part V: Irony, Play and Pleasure
13. Auden's Irreducible
(BOUTHEINA BOUGHNIM LAARIF)
14. Hugo Williams: Standing the Test of Time?
(ADRIAN GRAFE)
15. "Wi Naw Tek Noh More A Dem Oppreshan": Linton Kwesi Johnson's Resistant Vision
(EMILY TAYLOR MERRIMAN)
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
(ADRIAN GRAFE and JESSICA STEPHENS)
Part I: From Constraint to Release
1. The Self-Resisting: Hardy's Ambivalent Evocation of Romantic Childhood
(GALIA BENZIMAN)
2. Hardy's Cunning in Form and Diction
(EMILIE LORIAUX)
3. "Minds" and "Manacles" in Late Lawrence
(ELISE BRAULT-DREUX)
4. Lawrence Between Resistance and Dissolution
(SARAH BOUTTIER)
Part II: Against the Odds
5. The Poem or the "Fierce Desire" to Live: Isaac Rosenberg and Robert Graves
(ANNE MOUNIC)
6. Resisting Theological Error as a Means of Political Salvation: Charles Williams' and Dorothy L. Sayers' Second World War Poetry
(SUZANNE BRAY)
7. Resilience and Regeneration: Four Quartets in French Translation
( JESSICA STEPHENS)
Part III: Northern Resistance
8. Basil Bunting: Resistance, History and Myth
(CHARLOTTE ESTRADE)
9. Ted Hughes and "That Built-In Resistance": Versions of the Calder Valley
(CLAIRE HELIE)
Part IV: The Celtic Strain
10. "The Embattled Stance": Late Yeats
(ELIZABETH MULLER)
11. W.B. Yeats and Resistance
(CATHERINE PHILLIPS)
12. Responding, Rewording and/or Resisting: Edwin Morgan
(SHONA M. ALLAN)
Part V: Irony, Play and Pleasure
13. Auden's Irreducible
(BOUTHEINA BOUGHNIM LAARIF)
14. Hugo Williams: Standing the Test of Time?
(ADRIAN GRAFE)
15. "Wi Naw Tek Noh More A Dem Oppreshan": Linton Kwesi Johnson's Resistant Vision
(EMILY TAYLOR MERRIMAN)
About the Contributors
Index