Poetry and Dialogism: Hearing Over

by M. Scanlon (Editor), C. Engbers (Editor)

Overview

These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dialogism. The authors enrich and diversify the theoretical discourse on dialogic poetry and connect it to fertile critical fields like ethnic studies, translation studies, and ethics and literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349486342
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	205
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Temple Cone, United States Naval Academy, USA Tom Dolack, Wheaton College, USA Chad Engbers, Calvin College, USA Geoffrey Lindsay, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada Stephen Pierson, Onondaga Community College, USA Mara Scanlon, University of Mary Washington, USA Andrea Witzke Slot, University of Illinois, USA James D. Sullivan, Illinois Central College, USA Erin Trapp, University of Wisconsin River Falls, USA William Waters, Boston University, USA

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Hearing Over; Mara Scanlon 1. Dialogism and Monologism in 'Song of Myself'; Stephen Pierson 2. Aesthetic Activity in Sir Thomas Wyatt's Penitential Psalms; Chad Engbers 3. Lyric Ventriloquism and the Dialogic Translations of Pasternak, Mandelstam and Celan; Tom Dolack 4. Robert Lowell's 'common novel plot': Names, Naming, and Polyphony in The Dolphin; Geoffrey Lindsay 5. Poetic Address and Intimate Reading: The Offered Hand; William Waters 6. Hasidim in Poetry: Dialogical Poetics of Encounter in Denise Levertov's The Jacob's Ladder; Temple Cone 7. Reading the Process: Stuart Hall, TV News, Heteroglossia, and Poetry; James D. Sullivan 8. Dialogic Poetry as Emancipatory Technology: Ventriloquy and Voiceovers in the Rhythmic Junctures of Harryette Mullen's Muse & Drudge; Andrea Witzke Slot 9. Zehra Çirak and the Aporia of Dialogism; Erin Trapp Index