Lines of Resistance

Adrian Grafe is a professor of English at Artois University in France. He was an associate professor at the Sorbonne for 10 years, has published broadly on poetry, and was named a Fellow of the English Association in 2011. Jessica Stephens is an assistant professor of English at Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle University, where she teaches translation. Until the spring of 2010 she was co-director of the English Department at Angers University where she taught poetry and the translation of contemporary British poetry, and ran a Translation Studies MA program.

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• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments      Introduction(ADRIAN GRAFE and JESSICA STEPHENS)      Part I: From Constraint to Release1. The Self-Resisting: Hardy’s Ambivalent Evocation of Romantic Childhood(GALIA BENZIMAN)      2. Hardy’s Cunning in Form and Diction(EMILIE LORIAUX)      3. “Minds” and “Manacles” in Late Lawrence(ELISE BRAULT-DREUX)      4. Lawrence Between Resistance and Dissolution(SARAH BOUTTIER)      Part II: Against the Odds5. The Poem or the “Fierce Desire” to Live: Isaac Rosenberg and Robert Graves(ANNE MOUNIC)      6. Resisting Theological Error as a Means of Political Salvation: Charles Williams’ and Dorothy L. Sayers’ Second World War Poetry(SUZANNE BRAY)      7. Resilience and Regeneration: Four Quartets in French Translation( JESSICA STEPHENS)      Part III: Northern Resistance8. Basil Bunting: Resistance, History and Myth(CHARLOTTE ESTRADE)      9. Ted Hughes and “That Built-In Resistance”: Versions of the Calder Valley(CLAIRE HÉLIE)      Part IV: The Celtic Strain10. “The Embattled Stance”: Late Yeats(ELIZABETH MULLER)      11. W.B. Yeats and Resistance(CATHERINE PHILLIPS)      12. Responding, Rewording and/or Resisting: Edwin Morgan(SHONA M. ALLAN)      Part V: Irony, Play and Pleasure13. Auden’s Irreducible(BOUTHEINA BOUGHNIM LAARIF)      14. Hugo Williams: Standing the Test of Time?(ADRIAN GRAFE)      15. “Wi Naw Tek Noh More A Dem Oppreshan”: Linton Kwesi Johnson’s Resistant Vision(EMILY TAYLOR MERRIMAN)      About the Contributors      Index