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'"The Lyric a Form / Of Shame Management"?'
John Goodby
Shame and Modern Writing, eds. Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 156 - 164
Swansea University Author: John Goodby
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Abstract
About my experience as a practising poet, using shame theory (T. J. Scheff and S. M. Retzinger's essay, 'Shame as the \Master Emotion of Everyday Life' [2000]) and the literary tradition of writing about eroticism, embarrassment and shame (Ovid Gallus, Catullus, Shakespeare, Golding,...
| Published in: | Shame and Modern Writing, eds. Barry Sheils and Julie Walsh |
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| ISSN: | 978-1-138-06727-1 |
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Padstow
Routledge
2018
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa49123 |
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| Abstract: |
About my experience as a practising poet, using shame theory (T. J. Scheff and S. M. Retzinger's essay, 'Shame as the \Master Emotion of Everyday Life' [2000]) and the literary tradition of writing about eroticism, embarrassment and shame (Ovid Gallus, Catullus, Shakespeare, Golding, Dylan Thomas, John Keats, James Joyce, Enid Blyton, etc.) in writing a sequence of cut-up sonnets (modelled on Ted Berrigan's The Sonnets [1964]) titled Illennium (Shearsman, 2010). The brief chapter - it's only nine pages long, with just one footnote - analyses the way in which shame theory and 'the fractured facturedness' of Berrigan's sequence provided a formal model and critical permission to deal with the shame-full aftermath of a romantic friendship, and also, more generally, made possible a tentative theorisation of the lyric genre, historically speaking, as a kind of 'shame management'. Three sonnets of the 72 are included in the chapter and close read in some detail. |
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| Keywords: |
Shame, embarrassment, love, lyric, Ted Berrigan, sonnet, Denise Riley, linguistic guilt, John Keats, Dylan Thomas, Illennium, John Goodby |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Issue: |
1 |
| Start Page: |
156 |
| End Page: |
164 |