The Government of the Tongue

Heaney, Seamus

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“…He has none…' I'm not sure I would be so adamant as that; I'm more with Heaney when he says 'there is a certain jubilation and truancy at the heart of an inspiration' (Heaney 1988, page xviii; my emphasis): I take him to mean the spirit of transgression that 'rebels against phonemic authority ' (Appelbaum 1990, page 44), that joyfully critiques and resists a sullen and diminished reality, that is evocative, emotive, empathic, emancipatory. Arts-based research approaches clearly share in such educative desires.…”

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The sound of violets: the ethnographic potency of poetry?

Phipps

Saunders

2009

Ethnography and Education

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This paper takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors, and is in two halves, the first half discursive and propositional, and the second half exemplifying the rhetorical, epistemological and metaphysical affordances of poetry in critically scrutinising the rhetoric, epistemology and metaphysics of educational management discourse.Phipps and Saunders explore, through ideas and poems, how poetry can interrupt and/or illuminate dominant values in education and in educational research methods, such as:• alternatives to the military metaphors -targets, strategies and the like -that dominate the soundscape of education;• the kinds and qualities of the cognitive and feeling spaces that might be opened up by the shifting of methodological boundaries;• the considerable work done in ethnography on the use of the poetic: anthropologists have long used poetry as a medium for expressing their sense of empathic connection to their field and their subjects, particularly in considering the creativity and meaning-making that characterise all human societies in different ways;• the particular rhetorical affordances of poetry, as a discipline, as a practice, as an art, as patterned breath; its capacity to shift phonemic, and therewith methodological, authority; its offering of redress to linear and reductive attempts at scripting social life, as always already given and without alternative.

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The sound of violets: the ethnographic potency of poetry?

Phipps

Saunders

2009

Ethnography and Education

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“…54 Delivered in 1986, Heaney's lecture is a prescient retreat from neoliberal logics of production and consumption: poetry 'does not propose to be instrumental or effective', he insists; it is 'practically useless', almost without function, and yet concerned with action. That action is, quite simply, the reciprocal gaze of viewer/ photograph, reader/poem since poetry functions 'as pure concentration, a focus where our power to concentrate is concentrated back on ourselves'.…”

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Heaney and the Photograph: ‘Strange Fruit’ in Manuscript and Published Form

McConnell¹

2017

Irish University Review

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This article considers the composition history of Seamus Heaney's poem ‘Strange Fruit’, published in North (1975), by analysing manuscript drafts held at Emory University. Tracing the Christological and pre-Christian symbolism of earlier drafts of the poem, and the significance of photography for P.V. Glob's The Bog People (1969) and Heaney's imagination, it considers the figure of the blind double in Heaney's work.

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“…4 For these critics, there was an absence of any "objective correlative" -to continue the Eliotoan thread of Heaney"s thoughtbetween the "personal miseries" of a girl from Massachusetts and "the most dreadful event in the history of mankind". As a result, Plath was widely accused of indulging in a form of emotional plagiarism that revealed much about her own pathology, but very little about the condition of those who actually lived in the camps.…”

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'Black Phones': Postmodern Poetics in the Holocaust Poetry of Sylvia Plath

Boswell¹

2008

Critical Survey

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The Government of the Tongue

Cited by 49 publications

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The sound of violets: the ethnographic potency of poetry?

The sound of violets: the ethnographic potency of poetry?

Heaney and the Photograph: ‘Strange Fruit’ in Manuscript and Published Form

'Black Phones': Postmodern Poetics in the Holocaust Poetry of Sylvia Plath

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