re:
Douglas Oliver's, POETRY AND NARRATIVE IN PERFORMANCE, Macmillan 1989. That was
>before Performance Poetry became such a success, so it's only concerned
>with the reading of poetry, viewed as a performance, aloud or not, in
>public or not. It's a book I could never quite get my head round, but it
>goes into the subject very thoroughly, with spectographic analyses of
>spoken poetry and careful consideration of intonation, stress and voicing
>patterns etc.
I've read it and expected to glean more from it than i could. I'd be keen
to read other takes on it. I admit that my 'go' was a couple of years ago.
It did seem worthy in its detailed exegeses (as you say Peter all that
teasing spectrographic presentation that didn't in the end create a spark),
but dry and dull in terms of contemporary practice. More like one of those
linguistics analyses that tries for scientific approach and ends up only
being of interest to other linguists, rather than more widely useable. Was
it his PhD? It also seemed, from memory, weirdly locked into eighteenth and
nineteenth century formations of standard english. Fascinating, but i'd
prefer to have seem them deconstructed and interrogated rather than
assumed.
I'd guess that he has other material, that never made it into that
particularly orientated book, of much greater interest.
love and love
cris
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