Constructing Identity in the Poetry of Tony Harrison

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• INTRODUCTION: “The Whole View North”
• A “scholarship boy”
• Identity issues
• The “mutable self”
• 1. Identity—state or process
• 2. Identity—continuity and/or Otherness
• 3. Identity—a consequence of conformism or revolt
• CHAPTER ONE “Correct your Maps: Newcastle is Peru”: Continuity of exploration and exploitation in The Loiners
• “Négritude”
• The fragmented body
• Memory
• Identity and kinship
• “Westerners”
• “Nothingness”
• “Nuptial Torches”
• Periphery and centre
• CHAPTER TWO “Wherever did you get your talent from?”:: Continuity of Poetic Heritage in The School of Eloquence
• The crisis of belonging
• The suppression of working-class speech
• The struggle for language
• The constraint of form
• “On Not Being Milton”
• Ambivalent heroes
• The poles of identity
• “Barbarians”
• CHAPTER THREE “The still too living dead”: Continuity of Mourning in Selected Elegies from The School of Eloquence
• Trauerarbeit
• The figuration of loss
• The question of inheritance
• CHAPTER FOUR “Hawthorns Laden with Red Berries”: Evocative Objects in Harrison’s Elegies152
• CHAPTER FIVE “Half versus half, the enemies within”: Changing Patterns of Revolt in v.
• The mining community as collective protagonist
• “The Legacy of Mining”
• Graveyard and pit
• Gray’s “Elegy”
• Language as a site of struggle
• The “Pygmalion” syndrome
• CHAPTER SIX “This frightening mask”: The Continuity of the Poetic Gaze in Selected War Poems
• “The sun of poetry is set”
• The “gaze” of the camera
• The “complete witness”
• Prosopopeia
• “Cornet and Cartridge”
• Memory
• CONCLUSION: “How have you been useful for the polis?”
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Index of Names
• Series index