No Dialect Please, You're a Poet (eBook, ePUB)

English Dialect in Poetry in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Redaktion: Hélie, Claire; Loriaux, Emilie; Brault-Dreux, Elise

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

No Dialect Please, You're a Poet is situated at the crossroads in research areas of literature and linguistics. This collection of essays brings to the forefront the many ways in which dialect is present in poetry and how it is realized in both written texts and oral performances. In examining works from a wide range of poets and poetries, from acclaimed poets to emerging ones, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to poetics of dialects from a variety of regions, across two centuries of English poetry.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000124200
• Artikelnr.: 57160988

Autorenporträt

Claire Hélie is a Senior Lecturer at Université de Lille, France. Elise Brault-Dreux is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Valenciennes, France. Emilie Loriaux is a Lecturer of English at the University of Artois, France.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I: Rooting dialects in late 19th century poetry 1.
Foundations of English Dialect Poetry 2. The "boggle" in the "waäste":
Meaning and mask in Tennyson's dialect poems 3. "Leave off trying to put
the Robbie Burns' touch over me" - D.H. Lawrence's dialect poems Part II:
British dialects in 20th-21st c. poetry 4. The Problem with Dialect Poetry
5. "Lumbs & Orts": Ted Hughes and Dialect 6. Under-Mining The Meaning:
Women's Dialect Poetry and the 1984-5 UK Miners' Strike 7. "Yan Tan
Tethera": The Uses of Dialect in Tony Harrison's Poetry 8. "Between memory
and water"/ A phonetic analysis of Ian McMillan's evocation of life on the
English canals in his "fruity Yorkshire Brogue." Part III: (Not so) new
dialects in contemporary poetry 9. "Nae poet eer writes 'common speech',
Ye'll fin eneuch o yon in prose": Scots and Scottish English from Robert
Louis Stevenson to Tom Leonard 10. Not English: On the Importance of
Dialect in Poetry in Ireland 11. "Sometimes I wanda / Who will translate /
Dis / Fe de inglish?": Strategies for Transcribing Jamaican Creole in the
Dub Poems of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah 12. Sloughing off
Empire: "Multi-monolingualism" in Daljit Nagra's British Museum 13.
Bringing Homer Home: Nation versus Birminghamisation in Two Vernacular
English Iliads