Ted Hughes, nature and culture
2018
Book
Total copies: 5
The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin with Ted Hughes's proposition that `every child is nature's chance to correct culture's error.' Established Hughes scholars alongside new voices draw on a range of approaches to explore the intricate relationships between the natural world and cultural environments - political, as well as geographical - which his work unsettles. Combining close readings of his encounters with animals and places, and explorations of the poets who influenced him, these essays reveal Ted Hughes as a writer we still urgently need. Hughes helps us manage, in his words, `the powers of the inner world and the stubborn conditions of the other world, under which ordinary men and women have to live'.
Main title:
Ted Hughes, nature and culture / edited by Neil Roberts, Mark Wormald, Terry Gifford.
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Imprint:
Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Collation:
246 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
1. Ted Hughes and the Environmental Humanities - Terry Gifford.- 2. 'The nuptial flight': Hughes and the Mayfly - Mark Wormald.- 3. Ted Hughes's Paradise - Neil Roberts.- 4. Why look at animals? - Danny O'Connor.- 5. Coetzee's Hughesian Animals - Claire Heaney.- 6. The Nature of Ted Hughes's Similes - James Castell.- 7. The Nature of Englishness: The Hybrid Poetics of Ted Hughes - Vidyan Ravinthiran.- 8. 'Imagination Alters Everything': Ted Hughes and Place - Janne Stigen Drangsholt.- 9. 'Our Chaucer': Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Politics of Medieval Reading - James Robinson.- 10. 'The Remains of Something': Ted Hughes and the <i>Mabinogi</i> - Katherine Robinson.- 11. Ted Hughes's Apocalyptic Origins - John Goodby.- 12. Spectral Ophelia: Reading Manuscript Cancellations Contextually in Ted Hughes's <i>Cave Birds</i> - Carrie Smith.- 13. The Influence of Ted Hughes: the case of Alice Oswald - Laura Blomvall.- 14. Ted Hughes's Urbanity - Seamus Perry.
ISBN:
9783319975733 (hbk)9783319975740 (PDF ebook)
Dewey class:
821.914821.914 ROB
LC class:
PR6058.U37
Language:
English
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BRN:
330365