"After thirty Falls"

New Essays on John Berryman
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-420-2219-5
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 38, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: DQR Studies in Literature

Prefaced by an account of the early days of Berryman studies by bibliographer and scholar Richard J. Kelly, “After thirty Falls” is the first collection of essays to be published on the American poet John Berryman (1914-1972) in over a decade. The book seeks to provoke new interest in this important figure with a group of original essays and appraisals by scholars from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and the United States. Exploring such areas as the poet’s engagements with Shakespeare and the American sonnet tradition, his use of the Trickster figure and the idea of performance in his poetics, it expands the interpretive framework by which Berryman may be evaluated and studied, and it will be of interest to students of modern American poetry at all levels. What makes the collection particularly valuable is its inclusion of previously unpublished material – including a translation of a poem by Catullus and excerpts from the poet’s detailed notes on the life of Christ – thereby providing new contexts for future assessments of Berryman’s contribution to the development of poetry, poetics, and the relationship between scholarship and other forms of writing in the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Coleman, Nils Philip

McGowan, Philip

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Note on Abbreviations
Richard J. KELLY: Preface
Philip COLEMAN and Philip MCGOWAN: Introduction
Matthew BOSWELL: The Black Book: John Berryman’s Holocaust Requiem
Alex RUNCHMAN: “Continuity with lovers dead”: Berryman, Lowell, and the Twentieth-Century American Sonnet
Page RICHARDS: The Written and the Oral in Homage to Mistress Bradstreet
Ron CALLAN, Justin QUINN, Edward CLARKE, and Kit FRYATT: Encountering Henry: A Roundtable on Dream Song 1
Peter DENMAN: Form and Discontent: The Prosody of The Dream Songs
Anthony CALESHU: “Dramatizing the dreadful”: Affective Postures in The Dream Songs
Michael HINDS: Allusions, Etc.: Berryman, Catullus, Sappho
Stephen MATTERSON: “He lived like a rat”: The Trickster in The Dream Songs
Brendan COOPER: “One grand exception”: The Dream Songs as Theodicy?
Tom ROGERS: The Life of Berryman’s Christ
Maria JOHNSTON: “We write verse with our ears”: Berryman’s Music
Peter MABER: John Berryman and Shakespearean Autobiography
Philip COLEMAN: Love & Fame and the Self in Society
Philip MCGOWAN: John Berryman and the Writing of Silence
Lavinia GREENLAW, Brendan KENNELLY, Maura DOOLEY, Harry CLIFTON: After BERRYMAN: Four Poets
Notes on Contributors
Index