%0 Book
%A Agata Handley
%D 2021
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2364-2882
%@ 9783631855287
%T Constructing Identity in the Poetry of Tony Harrison
%B Revised and Expanded Edition
%R 10.3726/b18444
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1063372
%X When, in 1948, Tony Harrison entered Leeds Grammar School as a scholarship boy, he found himself, as Richard Hoggart saw, “at the friction point of two cultures”. His schooling introduced him to the “classics”; but it also deprived him of a clear identification with the place where he grew up. His work reflects and explores this tension; and it may be seen, in some ways, as a form of “identity construction.” The book examines key texts such as v. and the School of Eloquence sequence, where this “construction” takes different forms—oscillating between identity as a state, or a process; as continuity, or change; or as the outcome of conformity, or revolt. This second edition has been extensively revised and includes a new chapter on Harrison’s Elegies.
%K BRITISH POETRY, CONTEMPORARY POETRY, ELEGY, ENGLISH NORTH, WORKING-CLASS CULTURE, MEMORY
%G English