'She do the river in different voices': Lyric democracies in Alice Oswald's "Dart"

Martindale, Kym (2010) 'She do the river in different voices': Lyric democracies in Alice Oswald's "Dart". In: Process, Landscape, Text. Spatial Practices . Rodopi, Amsterdam, pp. 309-328. ISBN 978-90-420-3075-6

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This paper argues that Oswald's poem 'Dart' engages in gender politics to the extent that the river becomes both muse and agent of its own writing. The position and status of the lyric 'I' is particularly significant in this respect, and the poem, this paper believes, subverts Romantic discourses of nature where the Romantic gaze both owns and colonises nature to its own ends.

Item Type:	Book Section
ISBN:	978-90-420-3075-6
Subjects:	Writing & Journalism > Literature
Courses by Department:	The School of Writing & Journalism > English & Writing
Depositing User:	Kym Martindale
Date Deposited:	19 Jan 2015 15:50
Last Modified:	13 Oct 2017 16:05
URI:	https://repository.falmouth.ac.uk/id/eprint/1006

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