Lyric pedagogy and Marxist-feminism : social reproduction and the institutions of poetry / Samuel Solomon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Solomon, Samuel (Samuel Bernard), author.

Series:

Bloomsbury studies in critical poetics

Standardized Title:

Reproducing the line

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--Women authors--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English poetry--Women authors.

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

Feminism and literature--Great Britain.

Feminism and literature.

Literature--Study and teaching (Higher).

Women and communism.

Great Britain.

Women and communism--Great Britain.

Literature--Study and teaching (Higher)--Great Britain.

Literature.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

vii, 218 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.

Summary:

"What is the political potential of poetry in the contemporary era? Exploring an often overlooked history of Marxist-Feminist poetics in post-war Britain - including such poets as Denise Riley, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Wendy Mulford and Nat Raha - this book confronts this central question to debates about the value of humanities education today. Lyric Pedagogy and Marxist-Feminism demonstrates how ideas of social reproduction have been central both to the forms of post-1945 British poetry and the educational institutions where poetry is overwhelmingly encountered and produced. Combining new archival research with close readings of key poets of the period, the book charts the interrelated crises both of poetry itself and literary education more widely. Paradoxically, the very marginalisation of poetry in contemporary culture serves to offer the form new opportunities as an agent of social transformation"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction. Social reproduction and lyric pedagogy

Practical criticism and lyric pedagogy at Cambridge

Denise Riley's socialized biology

Forms of reproduction in the early work of Wendy Mulford

Institutional geologies and lonely sociality.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Southern California, 2012, titled Reproducing the line : 1970s innovative poetry and socialist-feminism in the U.K.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Solomon, Samuel (Samuel Bernard), author. Lyric pedagogy and Marxist-feminism

ISBN:

9781350063853

1350063851

OCLC:

1034615579