1st Edition
Overheard Voices Address and Subjectivity in Postmodern American Poetry
By Ann Keniston
Copyright 2006
172 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
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Routledge
184 Pages
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Routledge
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Overheard Voices examines poetic address and in particular apostrophe (the address of absent or inanimate others) in the work of four post-World War II American poets, with a focus on loss, desire, figuration, audience, and subjectivity. By approaching these crucial issues from an unexpected angle--through a study of the seldom-examined lyric "you"-- Overheard Voices offers new insight into... Read more
Introduction: The fluidity of damaged Form: Theorizing Postmodern Address Chapter One: Recovering You: Apostrophe in Sylvia Plath's Ariel Chapter Two: Familiar Projections: James Merrill's Changing Light at Sandover Chapter Three: Buried with the Romantics: Louise Glück's The Wild Iris Chapter Four: Homo Faber: Frank Bidart's Desire and Elegy Conclusion: A dream of this room: Self-Effacement, Lyric Space, and Negative Identification Works Cited
Biography
Ann Keniston
