The Poet as Public Intellectual: Tony Harrison's War Poetry

Autor/in	Handley, Agata
Titel	The Poet as Public Intellectual: Tony Harrison's War Poetry
Quelle	In: British Journal of Educational Studies, 70 (2022) 5, S.627-645 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Handley, Agata)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0007-1005
DOI	10.1080/00071005.2022.2145002
Schlagwörter	Poetry; Social Problems; War; Authors; Political Issues; Newspapers; Journalism + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lyrik; Poesie; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Krieg; Author; Autor; Autorin; Politischer Faktor; Newspaper; Zeitung; Journalistik; Journalismus
Abstract	The poet Tony Harrison has created work for the stage and television, and even assumed the role of poet/journalist, writing newspaper reports in verse from war-torn Bosnia. His work is underpinned by a belief in the political nature of the act of writing. He has generally attracted a non-working-class readership; nevertheless, he has never abandoned his quest for a 'democratic' poetry. Much of his work has taken the form of a poetry of immediate response to current events. He has also been insistent, at times, on where his poetry should be published. When he wrote 'Initial Illumination' for The Guardian, for example, he argued it should not appear in the 'literary' section, but on the news pages. Harrison sees himself as a 'war poet. He uses his position as a public intellectual to engage in a struggle against dominant discourses and ways of seeing and to bring audiences to confront the horror of war. The article focuses in particular on his Gulf War poem, 'A Cold Coming', in which he uses strategies such as ekphrasis, to position the reader as a kind of 'secondary witness' of a war that had been turned by the media into a distant, anaesthetised spectacle. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01