Poetry and dialogism
Subtitle: hearing over
By: edited by Mara Scanlon, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, USA ; Chad Engbers, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, USA
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781137401274
Subjects: Poetry; History and criticism; Theory; Dialogism (Literary analysis); Poetics; Literature and morals; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Description: "Although common conceptions of poetry assume a voice that is solitary, personal, or authoritative - a monologue that readers can only overhear and accede to - this volume presupposes that poetry may be dialogic. The essays posit various foundations, gradations, and practices of poetic dialogism; theorize a diverse scope and purpose of dialogic poetry, from secluded prayer to political activism; and examine subgenres of poetry as well as discourses from the Bible to Amos 'n' Andy. In doing so, they contribute to the field of ethics and literature as well, insisting that poetry may be even profoundly oriented toward an Other, whether that dialogism is traceable in speech acts; in differentiated consciousnesses, ideologies, discourses, languages, or allusions; in the rhythm, intonation, or formal devices that encode such exchange; or in the production or reception of the poem. What does dialogic poetry look like - or is it the poetry we've known all along?"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: AcknowledgementsNotes on the ContributorsIntroduction: Hearing Over; Mara Scanlon1. Dialogism and Monologism in 'Song of Myself'; Stephen Pierson2. Aesthetic Activity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's Penitential Psalms; Chad Engbers3. Lyric Ventriloquism and the Dialogic Translations of Pasternak, Mandelstam and Celan; Tom Dolack4. Robert Lowell's 'common novel plot': Names, Naming, and Polyphony in The Dolphin; Geoffrey Lindsay5. Poetic Address and Intimate Reading: The Offered Hand; William Waters6. Hasidim in Poetry: Dialogical Poetics of Encounter in Denise Levertov's The Jacob's Ladder; Temple Cone7. Reading the Process: Stuart Hall, TV News, Heteroglossia, and Poetry; James D. Sullivan8. Dialogic Poetry as Emancipatory Technology: Ventriloquy and Voiceovers in the Rhythmic Junctures of Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge; Andrea Witzke Slot9. Zehra Çirak and the Aporia of Dialogism; Erin TrappIndex.