Title The politics of speech in later twentieth-century poetry : local tongues in Heaney, Brooks, Harrison, and Clifton / William Fogarty

Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white) Series Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics. Contents 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 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 Notes Print version record Subject Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 -- Criticism and interpretation Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 -- Criticism and interpretation Harrison, Tony, 1937- -- Criticism and interpretation Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Brooks, Gwendolyn, 1917-2000 fast Clifton, Lucille, 1936-2010 fast Harrison, Tony, 1937- fast Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013 fast Subject Speech in literature. Rhetoric -- Political aspects. Rhetoric -- Political aspects Speech in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9783031078897 3031078896

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