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British national identity, topicality and tradition in the poetry of Simon Armitage

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dc.contributor.author Coussens, Catherine
dc.date.accessioned 2016-02-17T12:16:07Z
dc.date.available 2016-02-17T12:16:07Z
dc.date.issued 2008-05
dc.identifier.citation COUSSENS, C., (2008). British National Identity, Topicality and Tradition in the Poetry of Simon Armitage. Çankaya Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi, Journal of Arts and Sciences Sayı: 9, pp.19-38 tr_TR
dc.identifier.issn 1309-6788
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12416/760
dc.description.abstract This paper explores the treatment of British national identity, topicality and tradition in the work of Simon Armitage, alongside broader issues concerning contemporary public poetry in Britain. Armitage, with Carol Ann Duffy, is a major candidate for the position of Poet Laureate in 2009. Both poets have explored constructions of national identity in their work, but it is Armitage who has located himself more assertively within the arena of public, national poetry. Despite his focus on modern life-styles and discourses, and deployment of the mass media to disseminate his poetry into non-literary public spaces, Armitage is particularly sensitive to literary and cultural tradition. Within his work, which is deliberately accessible and contemporary, tradition is always at play in terms of allusion, response and interrogation. In this sense, his poetry both occupies and challenges notions of canonicity and traditional conceptions of British national identity. His recent focus on the theme of conflict also works to expose the inadequacy of mainstream assertions of continuity and meaning when constructing national identity. Armitage places Britishness and British literature within a broader ‘Millennial’ schema of eclipse, destruction and regeneration. For Armitage the recurrence of the theme of conflict throughout literary history both connects the literature of the present day with that of the past and emphasises the future’s instability and eternal lack of resolution. Therefore, Armitage’s modern translations of canonical texts like the Odyssey and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight foreground the fact that disharmony and conflict are, and have always been, national preoccupations tr_TR
dc.language.iso eng tr_TR
dc.publisher Çankaya Üniversitesi tr_TR
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess tr_TR
dc.subject British National Identity tr_TR
dc.subject Popularity tr_TR
dc.subject Public Poetry tr_TR
dc.subject Tradition tr_TR
dc.subject Conflict tr_TR
dc.subject Millennium tr_TR
dc.subject Contemporary tr_TR
dc.title British national identity, topicality and tradition in the poetry of Simon Armitage tr_TR
dc.type article tr_TR
dc.relation.journal Çankaya Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Journal of Arts and Sciences tr_TR
dc.identifier.issue 9 tr_TR
dc.identifier.startpage 17 tr_TR
dc.identifier.endpage 38 tr_TR
dc.contributor.department Çankaya Üniversitesi, Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı Bölümü tr_TR


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