Between Heteroglossia and Irony: Walcott’s “crystal of ambiguities”
Bakhtin’s concept of heteroglossia is used to examine Walcott’s use of different registers of language. His linguistic heritage as a St. Lucian, involving English, French and their Creoles, and his theatrical experience, prompt him to develop a poetics deploying diverse languages and tones to create...
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| Julkaisussa: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| Aineistotyyppi: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Kieli: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| Linkit: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Yhteenveto: | Bakhtin’s concept of heteroglossia is used to examine Walcott’s use of different registers of language. His linguistic heritage as a St. Lucian, involving English, French and their Creoles, and his theatrical experience, prompt him to develop a poetics deploying diverse languages and tones to create ambiguity and irony, which deliver a complex truth or signifying “crystal.” However, the power of language to penetrate to an ultimately metaphysical truth is questioned in his most recent work, The Prodigal. |
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