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New Light on Tony Harrison -

New Light on Tony Harrison

Edith Hall (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover
256 Seiten
2019
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-726651-9 (ISBN)
CHF 84,90 inkl. MwSt
New Light on Tony Harrison explores the lifetime achievement and influence of one of Britain's greatest living poets; Tony Harrison. It explores his extensive body of poems and his profound contribution to the literary world.
New Light on Tony Harrison was developed from a conference marking the 80th birthday of the prizewinning British poet Tony Harrison. Contributors include practising poets, playwrights, specialists in Classics, Theatre, Translation Studies, English and World Literature, and professionals in media where Harrison's extensive work has been least researched. The aim of the volume is to explore new approaches to the understanding of the work of one of our most important poets.

The volume examines four main areas:



Tony Harrison's more recent poems
The continuation of his relationship with ancient theatre after the landmark Oresteia and Trackers of the 1980-1990 decade, alongside his evolving dramatic relationship with Euripides and with French authors (Hugo, Molière, Racine)
Harrison's profound contribution during his periods of residence abroad in Africa, North America, Moscow and Prague, and his popularity in French and Italian translation;
His extensive body of poems written specifically for television and radio.

This is a must for fans of Tony Harrison's work and for those with an interest in, or studying English Literature, Classical Mythology, Theatre Studies, and Film courses.

After holding posts at the universities of Reading, Cambridge, Oxford, Durham, and Royal Holloway, Edith Hall took up a Chair in Classics at King's College London in 2012. She has published more than twenty-five books on ancient Greek and Roman culture and their continuing role in culture since the Renaissance. She is Co-Founder of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at Oxford and Chair of the Gilbert Murray Trust. She was awarded the Erasmus Prize in 2016 and an Honorary Doctorate from Athens University in 2017.

List of Contributors


List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Editor's Introduction by Edith Hall


Part I: Harrison's Example


1: Blake Morrison: Harrison as Elegist


2: Simon Armitage: Untitled Talk


3: Lee Hall: The Man Who Came to Read the Metre


4: Jo Balmer: Lost in the Original: Harrison as a Classicist Poet


Part II: Harrison's Poems


5: Claire Armitstead: Tony Harrison and the Guardian


6: Sandie Byrne: Metre and Memory


7: Oliver Taplin: Tony Harrison's Polygonal Ode to Delphi


Part III: Harrison's Theatre


8: Rachel Bower: Nigeria, Masque, and Masks


9: Hallie Marshall: The Early Years at the National Theatre: Harrison's Molie?re and Racine


10: Fiona Macintosh: Harrison as Scholar-Poet of the Theatre


11: Edith Hall: Verbal and Visual Witnessing: Tony Harrison's Euripides


Part IV: Harrison's France and Italy


12: Christine Regan: 'v.' Revisited: Harrison, Rimbaud, and the French Radical Tradition


13: Cécile Marshall: The Translation and Reception of Harrison's Poetry in France


14: Giovanni Greco: Wine and Poetry: Translating Tony Harrison in Italy


Part V: Harrison's Film Poetry


15: Peter Symes: A Poet behind the Camera


16: Antony Rowland: Modernism and the 'Double Consciousness' of Myth in Tony Harrison's Poems and Metamorpheus


17: Henry Stead


Afterword: 'For Tony at 80' A Poem by Sir Richard Eyre


Bibliography


Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Miscellaneous British Academy Publications
Zusatzinfo 9 black and white illustrations
Sprache englisch
Maße 165 x 243 mm
Gewicht 586 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-19-726651-7 / 0197266517
ISBN-13 978-0-19-726651-9 / 9780197266519
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