J. Blevins (dir.), Dialogism and Lyric Self-fashioning: Bakhtin and the Voices of a Genre

Jacob Blevins (dir.), Dialogism and Lyric Self-fashioning: Bakhtin and the Voices of a Genre, Selinsgrove, Pa.:  Susquehanna University Press, 2008.  Pp. 265.    

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Recension par Stephen M. Kershner (Denison University) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.06.57.

Présentation de l'éditeur:

Using Mikhal Bakhtin's concept of dialogism as a theoretical starting point, this volume investigates the manifestations of competing 'voices' within the tradition of lyric poetry. The lyric subject's understanding of himself/herself - through the very act of speaking/writing - is irrevocably connected, on multiple levels, to the heard and unheard voices of others. No matter how 'private' the voice of the lyric speaker appears to be, nearly every utterance is formed from and then positioned between what others have said or will say.Included here are essays on the classical, medieval, early modern, and modern lyric. Some of the essays engage Bakhtin 'head-on'; others by focusing explicitly on the construction of the subject through multiple discursive dialogues, implicitly bring Bakhtin to bear. These essays engage multiple elements of dialogism, including the convergence of masculine and feminine voices, public and private discourse, intertextuality and the 'voices of the past', the dialogue between literature and art, and the always present dialogue between speaker(s) and reader(s).

Table des matières:

Introduction
Jacob Blevins

Masculine and Feminine, Public and Private, in the Poetry of Sappho
Ellen Greene
An Agon on the Slopes of Helicon: Corinna's Dialogues with Pindar and Hesiod
David H.J. Larmour
Singing in the Garden: Statius's plein air Lyric (after Horace)
Diana Spencer
Putting Women in Their Place: Women's Devotional Songs in the Rosarius (BnF fr. 12483)
Daniel E. O'Sullivan
Subjective Identity and Collective Conscience in the Songs of Colin Muset
Christopher Callahan
Producing (and Reproducing) Poetic Identity in Thomas Edwards's Narcissus
John Everett Bird
That Noble Flame: Literary History and Regenerative Time in Katherine Philips's Elegies and Society of Friendship
W. Scott Howard
Apollinaire's Late Lyrics
Dafydd Wood
The Waste Land as a Human Drama Revealed by Eliot's Dialogic Imagination
Ian Probstein
"The Man with the Blue Guitar": Dialogism in Lyric Poetry
Amittai F. Aviram and Richard Hartnett
Echoes of Dubois: The Crisis Writings and Jayne Cortez's Earlier Poetry
Tom Lavazzi