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Broken English/breaking English : a study of contempoarary poetries in English / Rob Jackaman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackaman, Rob, 1945-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Commonwealth poetry (English)--History and criticism.
- Commonwealth poetry (English).
- American poetry--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- English language--Versification.
- English language.
- English language--Variation.
- Physical Description:
- 313 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Madison [N.J.] : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; London ; Cranbury, N.J. : Associated University Presses, [2003]
- Contents:
- 1. Introductory Discussion: Poetry and Purity (and Other Fictions) 11
- 2. Gentility and Its Alternatives 30
- 3. Gendered Spaces and the New Poetry 70
- Sylvia Plath (and Ted Hughes): A Question of Size 70
- Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck 86
- Carol Ann Duffy on being "Foreign" 98
- 4. Ethnic Spaces in the Empire of Words 111
- 5. "English" across the Gaelic Frontiers 145
- Seamus Heaney and the "scop's / twang" 147
- "Barbarians" North of the Border: Scotland and Language Invasion 170
- 6. Colony / Dominion: Writing Back 196
- 7. Conclusion: The "matter of England / ... the matter with England"? 254.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0838639917
- OCLC:
- 51817337
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