Troping the Voice-print: Derek Walcott’s Rhetoric of Performance
This essay investigates Walcott’s dynamics of textualized orality, in which print is disguised as speech so as to ostensibly efface itself. The poet uses the visual to suggest the oral, in effect performing orality with a full range of rhetorical figures using resemblances of sound and form to alter...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2022
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | This essay investigates Walcott’s dynamics of textualized orality, in which print is disguised as speech so as to ostensibly efface itself. The poet uses the visual to suggest the oral, in effect performing orality with a full range of rhetorical figures using resemblances of sound and form to alter meaning. Walcott’s highly rhetorical poetic oeuvre demonstrates a seamless collaboration between word as text and word as sound, generating meaning through musication or imitative harmony all the while emphasizing the iconic variations of the page. |
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