Ted Hughes, Class and Violence by Feldman, Matthew

Ted Hughes, Class and Violence (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781474275576)

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Ted Hughes, Class and Violence by Feldman, Matthew

Ted Hughes, Class and Violence

$51.95
Ted Hughes, Class and Violence by Feldman, Matthew

Ted Hughes, Class and Violence

$51.95
Format: Paperback
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Ted Hughes is widely regarded as a major figure in twentieth-century poetry, but the impact of Hughes's class background on his work has received little attention. This is the first full length study to take the measure of the importance of class in Hughes. It presents a radically new version of Hughes that challenges the image of Hughes as primarily a nature poet, as well as the image of the Tory Laureate. The controversy over 'natural' violence in Hughes's early poems, Hughes's relationship with Seamus Heaney, the Laureateship, and Hughes's revisiting of his relationship with Sylvia Plath in Birthday Letters (1998), are reconsidered in terms of Hughes's class background. Drawing on the thinking of cultural theorists such as Slavoj Zizek, Terry Eagleton, and Julia Kristeva, the book presents new political readings of familiar Hughes poems, alongside consideration of posthumously collected poems and letters, to reveal a surprising picture of a profoundly class-conscious poet.

Author: Matthew Feldman
ISBN-10: 1474275575
ISBN-13: 9781474275576
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2016
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.36d
By Matthew Feldman
By Matthew Feldman
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Paul Bentley is Reader in English Literature at the University of St. Mark & St. John, Plymouth, UK. He is author of The Poetry of Ted Hughes: Language, Illusion & Beyond (1998) and Scientist of the Strange: The Poetry of Peter Redgrove (2002). He has published widely on modern poetry.

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