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Ted Hughes, nature and culture
Abstract
The fourteen contributors to this new collection of essays begin with Ted Hughes's proposition that "every child is nature's chance to correct culture's error." Established Hughes scholars alongside new voices draw on a range of approaches to explore the intricate relationships between the natural world and cultural environments — political, as well as geographical — which his work unsettles. Combining close readings of his encounters with animals and places, and explorations of the poets who influenced him, these essays reveal Ted Hughes as a writer we still urgently need. Hughes helps us manage, in his words, "the powers of the inner world and the stubborn conditions of the other world, under which ordinary men and women have to live".
Details | Table of Contents
pp.3-20
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97574-0_1Ted Hughes and the mayfly
pp.21-37
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97574-0_2the hybrid poetics of Ted Hughes
pp.107-123
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97574-0_7Ted Hughes and place
pp.125-139
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97574-0_8Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the politics of medieval reading
pp.143-159
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97574-0_9Ted Hughes and the mabinogion
pp.161-176
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97574-0_10reading manuscript cancellations contextually in Ted Hughes's Cave birds
pp.195-213
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97574-0_12the case of Alice Oswald
pp.215-230
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97574-0_13Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2018
Pages: 256
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-97574-0
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-97573-3
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-97574-0
Full citation:
Roberts Neil, Wormald Mark, Gifford Terry (2018) Ted Hughes, nature and culture. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.