Poetry and Dialogism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

   PDF

2. Introduction: Hearing Over

   • Mara Scanlon

   Pages 1-19

3. Dialogism and Monologism in “Song of Myself”

   • Stephen Pierson

   Pages 20-38

4. Aesthetic Activity in Sir Thomas Wyatt’s Penitential Psalms

   • Chad Engbers

   Pages 39-56

5. Lyric Ventriloquism and the Dialogic Translations of Pasternak, Mandelstam and Celan

   • Tom Dolack

   Pages 57-79

6. Robert Lowell’s “common novel plot”: Names, Naming, and Polyphony in The Dolphin

   • Geoffrey Lindsay

   Pages 80-96

7. Poetic Address and Intimate Reading: The Offered Hand

   • William Waters

   Pages 97-122

8. Hasidim in Poetry: Dialogic Poetics of Encounter in Denise Levertov’s The Jacob’s Ladder

   • Temple Cone

   Pages 123-139

9. Reading the Process: Stuart Hall, TV News, Heteroglossia, and Poetry

   • James D. Sullivan

   Pages 140-159

10. Dialogic Poetry as Emancipatory Technology: Ventriloquy and Voiceovers in the Rhythmic Junctures of Harryette Mullen’s Muse & Drudge

    • Andrea Witzke Slot

    Pages 160-179

11. Zehra Çirak and the Aporia of Dialogism

    • Erin Trapp

    Pages 180-198

12. Back Matter

    Pages 199-205

    PDF

These essays extend an ongoing conversation on dialogic qualities of poetry by positing various foundations, practices, and purposes of poetic dialogism. The authors enrich and diversify the theoretical discourse on dialogic poetry and connect it to fertile critical fields like ethnic studies, translation studies, and ethics and literature.

• discourse
• essay
• lyric
• poetics
• poetry

• University of Mary Washington, USA

  Mara Scanlon

• Calvin College, USA

  Chad Engbers

Temple Cone, United States Naval Academy, USA Tom Dolack, Wheaton College, USA Chad Engbers, Calvin College, USA Geoffrey Lindsay, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada Stephen Pierson, Onondaga Community College, USA Mara Scanlon, University of Mary Washington, USA Andrea Witzke Slot, University of Illinois, USA James D. Sullivan, Illinois Central College, USA Erin Trapp, University of Wisconsin River Falls, USA William Waters, Boston University, USA

Policies and ethics