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Writers and Their Work Ser.: Fleur Adcock by Janet Wilson (2007, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherLiverpool University Press
ISBN-100746310404
ISBN-139780746310403
eBay Product ID (ePID)99547613
Product Key Features
Number of Pages156 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFleur Adcock
Publication Year2007
SubjectGeneral, Poetry, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
TypeTextbook
AuthorJanet Wilson
Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Poetry
SeriesWriters and Their Work Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight7.4 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal821.914
SynopsisThis study discusses Adcock as a writer who draws on her experiences of dislocation in order to position herself between cultures. Contrasting her work with that of the post-war British poetic mainstream with which she has been associated, it emphasises that the radically displaced feminised consciousness which negotiates the boundaries between self and other can be identified in Adcock's poetry as metonymic of resolving national and cultural differences. Wilson argues that displaced voices such as hers from white settler colonies like New Zealand now belong to multicultural Britain. Her close readings of Adcock's verse in terms of its ironic double vision focus on the blend of classical restraint, wit, and humour, in relation to her complex revaluation of the diasporic imaginary of the exile. Claiming that Adcock's personal mythology, based on her divided nationality and gendered consciousness, recalls writers like Jane Austen and her fellow expatriate, Katherine Mansfield, Wilson argues that the best of her work transcends the immediate problems of her age., This study discusses Adcock as a writer who draws on her experiences of dislocation in order to position herself between cultures. Contrasting her work with that of the post-war British poetic mainstream with which she has been associated, it emphasises that the radically displaced feminised consciousness which negotiates the boundaries between self and other can be identified in Adcock's poetry as metonymic of resolving national and cultural differences. Wilson argues that displaced voices such as hers from white settler colonies like New Zealand now belong to multicultural Britain. Her close readings of Adcock's verse in terms of its ironic double vision focus on the blend of classical restraint, wit, and humour, in relation to her complex revaluation of the diasporic imaginary of the exile. Claiming that Adcock's personal mythology, based on her divided nationality and gendered consciousness, recalls writers like Jane Austen and her fellow expatriate, Katherine Mansfield, Wilson argues that the b, This study discusses Adcock as a writer who draws on her experiences of dislocation in order to position herself between cultures.
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