Guerneri, Luca;
(2024)
A poetry “third” way?
Acts of resistance and transitional spaces in four poets from the
1994 New Generation.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This thesis utilises the planning and realisation of the event commonly referred to as the 1994 New Generation Poetry as a focal point to examine a range of discursive practices pertaining to British poetry in the aftermath of World War II. This encompasses several classifications such as mainstream categorisation, interplay with tradition, level of readability, and the process of commercialisation. This study focuses especially on the profiles of four poets who were selected for the event, namely Michael Donaghy, Lavinia Greenlaw, Michael Hofmann, and Don Paterson. The analysis is designed to consider the acts of resistance exhibited by the poets against the discursive practices stated earlier, which may be found both inside the realm of poetic language itself and in external factors. The poetry of Michael Donaghy is analysed within the framework of Donald Winnicott’s ideas, with the aim of exploring its function as a “spell” that seeks to reconcile the gap between the signifier and the referent in linguistic signs. Lavinia Greenlaw’s poetic works actively involve Roland Barthes’s seminal text Camera Lucida, specifically its exploration of the dynamic relationship between the punctum and the studium. Paterson’s opposition to what he defines as the phenomenon of postmodern drift is analysed via a psychoanalytic lens, drawing upon the theoretical framework proposed by Jacques Lacan. In relation to Michael Hofmann, his poetry exhibits a juxtaposition with Walter Benjamin’s theoretical fragmentation, particularly in terms of the ideas surrounding the reclamation of ruin as a potential act of revolution
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
|---|---|
| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | A poetry “third” way? Acts of resistance and transitional spaces in four poets from the 1994 New Generation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of English Lang and Literature |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10188782 |
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