John Betjeman: 1 (Writers and Their Work) - Softcover

Brown, Dennis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0746308957 ISBN 13: 9780746308950

Verlag: Liverpool University Press, 1999

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..Brown argues in a lucid and bold fashion --Years Work in English Studies

Reseña del editor:

Sir John Betjeman remains the most popular English poet of today. He has been termed a `national teddy bear', and some commentary has addressed his work in rather such terms. However, it is evident that most of his key themes - the spirit of place (or `place-myth'), mundane lives (`petit recits') or historical continuity (the `presence of the past') - have specific relevance to postmodern and, especially, environmental concerns. Dennis Brown's book assesses Betjeman's contribution in the light of this, emphasising its ironic self-reflexivity, its rendering of Englishness and a `soft' masculinity, and its ecumenical Christian tolerance. The popularity of Betjeman's lyrics, and his verse-autobiography Summoned by Bells, is considered as indicative of Britain's post-imperial self-revaluation. It is shown how the poet's technique offers an accessible alternative to more complex neo-modernist poetics. Overall, the book stresses Betjeman's contemporaneity, and his relevance to an era of `contingency, irony, and solidarity'.

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• Verlag: Liverpool University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0746308957
• ISBN 13: 9780746308950
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128