ABSTRACT
No Dialect Please, You're a Poet is situated at the crossroads in research areas of literature and linguistics. This collection of essays brings to the forefront the many ways in which dialect is present in poetry and how it is realized in both written texts and oral performances. In examining works from a wide range of poets and poetries, from acclaimed poets to emerging ones, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to poetics of dialects from a variety of regions, across two centuries of English poetry.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|43 pages
Rooting Dialects in Late 19th-Century Poetry
part II|76 pages
British Dialects in 20th- and 21st-Century Poetry
chapter 8|16 pages
“Between Memory and Water”
A Phonetic Analysis of Ian McMillan’s Evocation of Life on the English Canals in His “Fruity Yorkshire Brogue”
part III|78 pages
(Not so) New Dialects in Contemporary Poetry
chapter 9|16 pages
“Nae Poet Eer Writes ‘Common Speech,’ Ye’ll Fin Eneuch O Yon In Prose”
Scots and Scottish English From Robert Louis Stevenson to Tom Leonard
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chapter 11|14 pages
“Sometimes I Wanda/Who Will Translate/Dis/Fe de Inglish?” 1
Strategies for Transcribing Jamaican Creole in the Dub Poems of Linton Kwesi Johnson and Benjamin Zephaniah
chapter 13|17 pages
Bringing Homer Home
Nation Versus Birminghamization in Two Vernacular English Iliads
