‘The river’s mutterings’: Lyrical Discretion, Communal Utterances, and Poetry Beyond the Human in Alice Oswald’s Dart
Alice Oswald’s Dart is a book-long exploration of the soundscape of the eponymous river in Devon. It blends the human and the non-human into what the preface describes as a ‘songline from the source to the sea’. Yet, in the poem’s sonic flow, the reader often loses track of any kind of source of the...
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| Language: | English |
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Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée
2019-03-01
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| Series: | Études Britanniques Contemporaines |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ebc/6919 |