David Jones and the Archipelagic Past
The poetry of David Jones negotiates between a variety of British cultures, traditions, and geographies. While the verbal texture of his poems weaves together the linguistic diversity of Britain's Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Latinate cultures, Jones is also attentive to the role of place (or "...
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| RelBib Classification: | CD Christentum und Kultur KAJ Kirchengeschichte 1914-; neueste Zeit KBF Britische Inseln |
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POETRY (Literary form)
B ANATHEMATA, The (Poem) B Hegemony B Literary style B SLEEPING Lord, The (Poem) B JONES, David, 1895-1974 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | The poetry of David Jones negotiates between a variety of British cultures, traditions, and geographies. While the verbal texture of his poems weaves together the linguistic diversity of Britain's Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, and Latinate cultures, Jones is also attentive to the role of place (or "site") in shaping their interrelatedness. Both The Anathemata and The Sleeping Lord dramatize what John Kerrigan (.Archipelagic English, 2010) has termed an "archipelagic" understanding of the relationship between Britain's peoples and cultures. Indeed, Jones's poetry and essays might together comprise the most "archipelagic" body of work in British and Irish modernism. If Kerrigan's notion of the archipelagic can deepen our understanding of Jones's vision of Britain, that vision in turn brings to the archipelagic new historical and even geological depth. While scholars such as John Brannigan (.Archipelagic Modernism, 2015) have emphasized the ecological and geographical dimensions of Irish and British modernism, the historical dimension of relationships among and between the Isles, as represented in modernist writing, has been less thoroughly investigated. This essay explores Jones's archipelagic vision of Britain, showing how it is shaped by his historical and geographical understanding of the relationships between peoples, cultures, and languages. The early Middle Ages, as a time prior to the establishment of English hegemony in Britain, are a particularly important period in Jones's poetry and prose, and take on new importance in an archipelagic reading of Jones's work. |
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| ISSN: | 2328-6911 |
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