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Lyric Shame
Author | : Gillian White |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2014-10-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674734395 |
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Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. “Lyric” is less a specific genre than a way to project subjectivity onto poems—an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere.
Lyric Shame
Author | : Gillian White |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2014-10-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674967441 |
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Bringing a provocative perspective to the poetry wars that have divided practitioners and critics for decades, Gillian White argues that the sharp disagreements surrounding contemporary poetics have been shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. Favored particularly by modern American poets, lyric poetry has long been considered an expression of the writer’s innermost thoughts and feelings. But by the 1970s the “lyric I” had become persona non grata in literary circles. Poets and critics accused one another of “identifying” with lyric, which increasingly bore the stigma of egotism and political backwardness. In close readings of Elizabeth Bishop, Anne Sexton, Bernadette Mayer, James Tate, and others, White examines the social and critical dynamics by which certain poems become identified as “lyric,” arguing that the term refers less to a specific literary genre than to an abstract way of projecting subjectivity onto poems. Arguments about whether lyric poetry is deserving of praise or censure circle around what White calls “the missing lyric object”: an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere, and which is the product of reading practices that both the advocates and detractors of lyric impose on poems. Drawing on current trends in both affect and lyric theory, Lyric Shame unsettles the assumptions that inform much contemporary poetry criticism and explains why the emotional, confessional expressivity attributed to American lyric has become so controversial.
Lyric Trade
Author | : Julia Bloch |
Publsiher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2024-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781609389444 |
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Sometimes the word “lyric” seems to appear everywhere: either it’s used interchangeably with the word “poetry” or it attaches to descriptions of literature, art, film, and even ordinary objects in order to capture some quality of aesthetic appeal or meaning. Lyric Trade is not yet another attempt to define the lyric, but instead it digs into how poems use lyric in relation to race, gender, nation, and empire. Engaging with poets such as Gwendolyn Brooks, H.D., Lorine Niedecker, Alice Notley, and Myung Mi Kim, this book asks: What does lyric mean, and why should it matter to poets and readers? Lyric Trade argues that lyric in the postwar long poem not only registers the ideological contradictions of modernism’s insistence on new forms, but that it also maps spaces for formal reimaginings of the subject.
Lyric Eye
Author | : Tyne Daile Sumner |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2021-08-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781000422276 |
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Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillance presents the first detailed study of the relationship between poetry and surveillance. It critically examines the close connection between American lyric poetry and a burgeoning US state surveillance apparatus from 1920 to the 1960s. The book explores the myriad ways that poets—Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg and others—explored a developing and fraught environment in which the growing power of American investigative agencies, such as the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, imposed new pressures on cultural discourse and personal identity. In analysing twentieth-century American poetry and its various ideas about "the self," Lyric Eye demonstrates the extent to which poetry and surveillance employ similar styles of information-gathering such as observation, overhearing, imitation, abstraction, repurposing of language, subversion, fragmentation and symbolism. Ground-breaking and prescient, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, politics, surveillance and intelligence studies, and digital humanities.
Queer Troublemakers
Author | : Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-08-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781350079366 |
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Irreverent and provoking, the figure of the 'queer troublemaker' is a disruptive force both poetically and politically. Tracing the genealogy of this figure in modern avant-garde American poetry, Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain develops innovative close readings of the works of Gertrude Stein, Frank O'Hara, Eileen Myles and Maggie Nelson. Exploring how these writers play with identity, gender, sexuality and genre, Bussey-Chamberlain constructs a queer poetics of flippancy that can subvert ideas of success and failure, affect and affectation, performance and performativity, poetry and being.
The Lyric Voice in English Theology
Author | : Elizabeth S. Dodd |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2023-09-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780567670311 |
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In this book, Elizabeth S. Dodd traces the contours of a lyric theology through the lens of English lyric tradition. She addresses the dominance of narrative and drama in contemporary theological aesthetics by drawing on recent developments in lyric theory. Informed by the work of critics such as Jonathan Culler, Dodd explores the significance of lyric for theological discourse. Lyric is presented here as a short, musical, expressive and personal form that is also fragmentary, embodied, socially located and performative. The main chapters address key moments in English lyric tradition. This selective approach aims to expand the theological gaze beyond the monochromatic features of the traditional canon. It covers Anglo-Saxon hymns, medieval lullaby carols, early-modern sonnets and the prophetic poetry of Romanticism, but also Grime and hip hop, performance poetry, social media poetry and Geoffrey Hill.
The Sound Sense of Poetry
Author | : Peter Robinson |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2018-09-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108422963 |
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Robinson explains how poetry makes things happen through the interaction of its chosen words and forms with the reader's responses.
Race in American Literature and Culture
Author | : John Ernest |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2022-06-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781108487399 |
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The book shows how American racial history and culture have shaped, and been shaped in turn by, American literature.