Format:
1 Online-Ressource (208 Seiten)
Edition:
1st, New ed
ISBN:
9783631855287
Series Statement:
Transatlantic Studies in British and North American Culture 34
Content:
identity studies – Tony Harrison – British poetry, elegy, contemporary poetry – memory studies – nostalgia studies – working-class culture
Content:
When, in 1948, Tony Harrison entered Leeds Grammar School as a scholarship boy, he found himself, as Richard Hoggart saw, “at the friction point of two cultures”. His schooling introduced him to the “classics”; but it also deprived him of a clear identification with the place where he grew up. His work reflects and explores this tension; and it may be seen, in some ways, as a form of “identity construction.”The book examines key texts such as v. and the School of Eloquence sequence, where this “construction” takes different forms—oscillating between identity as a state, or a process; as continuity, or change; or as the outcome of conformity, or revolt.This second edition has been extensively revised and includes a new chapter on Harrison’s Elegies
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783631837450
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Handley, Agata, 1979 - Constructing Identity in the Poetry of Tony Harrison Berlin : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2021 ISBN 9783631837450
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3631837453
Language:
English
Keywords:
Harrison, Tony 1937-
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Lyrik
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Identität
Author information:
Handley, Agata 1979-
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