By Jo Gill,Melanie Waters
ISBN-10: 0415617553
ISBN-13: 9780415617550
This assortment makes a serious and inventive intervention into ongoing debates concerning the dating among poetry and autobiography. Drawing on fresh theories of existence writing, the essays within the first a part of this quantity supply new analyses of works via various poets, courting from the early smooth interval to the current day. Exploring the autobiographical resonances of poems through Martha Moulsworth, Mina Loy, Anne Sexton, Joe Brainard, Edward Kamau Braithwaite, and Gwyneth Lewis, the authors the following study the level to which discourses of fact and authenticity were implicated in conventional interpretations of lyric poetry. In doing so, they endeavour to light up the complicated intersections – and divergences – of poetry and autobiography, asking what those types may perhaps research from one another approximately problems with shared difficulty, from questions of id and textuality to these of reference and viewers. The artistic reflections which shape the second one a part of the gathering strengthen and reply to those questions in quite a few suggestive and unique methods; right here poetry and prose are utilized in order to check the connection among poetry and lifestyles writing and to discover problems with reminiscence, time, position, subjectivity and voice. This publication used to be released as a unique factor of Life Writing.
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