Dialogism and lyric self-fashioning
Subtitle: Bakhtin and the voices of a genre
By: edited by Jacob Blevins.
Contributors: Blevins, Jacob, 1970-
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Selinsgrove, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9781575911205
Subjects: Bakhtin, M. M. -- 1895-1975; Lyric poetry -- History and criticism
Description: "Using Mikhail Bakhtin as a kind of theoretical starting point, this volume of essays investigates the manifestation of such competing "voices" within the tradition of lyric poetry. The lyric subject's understanding of himself/herself - through the very act of speaking/writing - is irrevocably connected, on multiple levels, to the heard and unheard voices of others. No matter how private the voice of the lyric speaker appears to be, nearly every utterance is formed from and then positioned between what others have said or will say. Included here are essays on the classical, medieval, early modern, and modern lyric. Some of the essays in this volume engage Bakhtin "head-on"; others, by focusing explicitly on the construction of the subject through multiple discursive dialogues implicitly bring Bakhtin to bear. These essays engage multiple elements of dialogism, including the convergence of masculine and feminine voices, public and private discourses, intertextuality and the "voices of the past," the dialogue between literature and art, and the always present dialogue between speaker(s) and reader(s)."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jacob Blevins; title: Masculine and feminine, public and private, in the poetry of Sappho / Ellen Greene; title: An agon on the slopes of helicon : Corinna's dialogues with Pindar and Hesiod / David H. J. Larmour; title: Singing in the garden : Statius's plein air lyric (after Horace) / Diana Spencer; title: Putting women in their place : women's devotional songs in The Rosarius (bnf fr. 12483) / Daniel E. O'Sullivan; title: Subjective identity and collective conscience in the songs of Colin Muset / Christopher Callahan; title: Producing (and reproducing) poetic identity in Thomas Edwards's Narcissus / John Everett Bird; title: That noble flame : literary history and regenerative time in Katherine Philips's elegies and society of friendship / W. Scott Howard; title: Apollinaire's late lyrics / Dafydd Wood; title: The waste land as a human drama revealed by Eliot's dialogic imagination / Ian Probstein; title: The man with the blue guitar : dialogism in lyric poetry / Amittai F. Aviram and Richard Hartnett; title: Echoes of DuBois : the crisis writings and Jayne Cortez's earlier poetry / Tom Lavazzi.