Ted Hughes and Trauma Burning the Foxes
This book is a radical re-appraisal of the poetry of Ted Hughes, placing him in the context of continental theorists such as Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Slavoj Zizek to address the traumas of his work. As an undergraduate, Hughes was visited in his
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DANNY O’CONNOR
Ted Hughes and Trauma
Danny O’Connor
Ted Hughes and Trauma Burning the Foxes
Danny O’Connor Department of English University of Liverpool Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-55791-9 ISBN 978-1-137-55792-6 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-55792-6
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many people have helped in shaping and creating this book. I would firstly like to thank Neil Corcoran for his help and wisdom in getting this project started. A huge thanks is owed to Deryn Rees-Jones for her tireless support, her remarkable insight and unceasing advocacy for poetry itself. Terry Gifford, Neil Roberts, Ann Skea and Mark Wormald have all been of enormous assistance, answering Hughes-related queries and offering encouragement along the way. Likewise Gillian Gorszewski, whose deep knowledge of Hughes and droll humour has been the necessary measure of many of my arguments. I would like thank my parents for their enormous support, without whom this book would not have been possible— my mother, in particular, for introducing me to Hughes. And above all Emma, for putting up with me linking everything back to Ted Hughes.
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CONTENTS
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Introduction: A Tyrannical Reading of Ted Hughes
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Hughes’s Creaturely Creatures
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Hughes’s Landscape, Lacan’s Real
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En Attendant Crow: Hughes with Sartre, Camus and Beckett
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Hughes Meets Bacon, Baskin and the Big Screen
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Hughes and War Trauma
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Hughes and the Burning of Literary Criticism
121
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‘She Did Life’: England Traumatised
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