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Echo and Critique - Poetry and the Cliches of Public Speech (Hardcover)
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Echo and Critique - Poetry and the Cliches of Public Speech (Hardcover)
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In Echo and Critique, Florian Gargaillo skillfully charts the ways
that poets have responded to the cliches of public speech from the
start of the Second World War to the present. Beginning around
1939, many public intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic
lamented that the political lexicon had become saturated with
bureaucratic stock phrases such as "the fight for freedom,"
"revenue enhancement," and "service the target," designed for the
mass media and used to euphemize, obfuscate, and evade. Instead of
ridding their writing of such language, many poets parroted these
tropes as a means of exploring the implications of such
expressions, weighing their effects, and identifying the realities
they distort and suppress. With its attentiveness to linguistic
particulars, poetry proved especially well-suited to this
innovative mode of close listening and intertextual commentary. At
the same time, postwar poets recognized their own susceptibility to
dead language, so that co-opting political cliches obliged them to
scrutinize their writing and accept the inevitability of cant while
simultaneously pushing against it. This innovative study blends
close readings with historical context as it traces the development
of echo and critique in the work of seven poets who expertly
deployed the method throughout their careers: W. H. Auden, Randall
Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Robert Lowell, Josephine
Miles, and Seamus Heaney. Gargaillo's analysis reveals that poetry
can encourage us to listen diligently and critically to the
insincerity ubiquitous in public discourse.
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