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On Voice in PoetryIntroduction Voice in Poetry: Opening up a Concept

On Voice in Poetry: Introduction Voice in Poetry: Opening up a Concept [What do we mean by ‘voice’ in poetry? Given the sheer diversity, and ambivalence, of poems’ understandings, deployments, explorations of voice, their strategies of voicing, as well as the roles played by voice as trope, as prosodic resource, as ideology, so categorical a question could easily seem self-defeating. Phrasing the question thus, moreover, takes its ‘we’ to be unproblematic, not to mention assuming some stable entity called ‘poetry’ — and all this simply in order to raise the question of ‘voice’. But then again, asking about voice might, for this very reason, bring this ‘we’ into focus, might offer up a conception of ‘poetry’ that can comprehend practices as various as those of Paul Celan, Henri Chopin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lisa Robertson, William Shakespeare; and, reciprocally, opening ourselves to the kinds of thinking these poems render possible, and indeed exact of us, might provide a starting point from which to reflect on the category of voice itself.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

On Voice in PoetryIntroduction Voice in Poetry: Opening up a Concept

Part of the Language, Discourse, Society Book Series
Smith, David Nowell
On Voice in Poetry — Nov 10, 2015
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2015
ISBN
978-1-349-45588-1
Pages
1 –14
DOI
10.1057/9781137308238_1
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Abstract

[What do we mean by ‘voice’ in poetry? Given the sheer diversity, and ambivalence, of poems’ understandings, deployments, explorations of voice, their strategies of voicing, as well as the roles played by voice as trope, as prosodic resource, as ideology, so categorical a question could easily seem self-defeating. Phrasing the question thus, moreover, takes its ‘we’ to be unproblematic, not to mention assuming some stable entity called ‘poetry’ — and all this simply in order to raise the question of ‘voice’. But then again, asking about voice might, for this very reason, bring this ‘we’ into focus, might offer up a conception of ‘poetry’ that can comprehend practices as various as those of Paul Celan, Henri Chopin, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lisa Robertson, William Shakespeare; and, reciprocally, opening ourselves to the kinds of thinking these poems render possible, and indeed exact of us, might provide a starting point from which to reflect on the category of voice itself.]

Published: Nov 10, 2015

Keywords: Voice Prosthesis; Vocal Sound; Prosodic Contour; Vocal Utterance; Poetic Voice

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