Snodgrass’ (In-)conveniently selected memories : Reclaiming
parental identity in “Heart’s Needle”

J 2026

Snodgrass’ (In-)conveniently selected memories : Reclaiming parental identity in “Heart’s Needle”

KOKH, Mariia

Základní údaje

Originální název

Snodgrass’ (In-)conveniently selected memories : Reclaiming parental identity in “Heart’s Needle”

Autoři

KOKH, Mariia

Vydání

The Explicator, Philadelphia, PA, Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2026, 0014-4940

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

60206 Specific literatures

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

Odkaz na stránku článku na platformě Taylor & Francis

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 0.100 v roce 2024

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Organizační jednotka

Filozofická fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

Confessional poetry; W. D. Snodgrass; Heart's Needle; autobiographical writing; memory

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 25. 5. 2026 14:54, Mgr. Ester Gaja Pučálková, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The late 50s and early 60s in the United States witnessed the emergence of an unprecedentedly emotive and visceral style of poetry which enabled its practitioners, however discontented with the label “confessional,” to articulate their most personal experiences, addressing topics ranging from divorce family separation and sexuality to mental health, suicide, and alcoholism. W. D. Snodgrass’ 1959 poetry collection Heart’s Needle is often credited as signaling the origins of the tradition, with its titular poem being dedicated to his daughter Cynthia, whose divorce-inflicted loss is anatomized in the work. With the ten-section titular poem “Heart’s Needle” under scrutiny and Jerome Bruner’s ideas of “self-making narratives” and the process of “public self-telling” serving as a backbone of the analysis, this paper focuses on the autobiographical elements as well as specific memories in the poem, highlighting the “re-pairing” feature of the lyric as well as tracing the poetic narrative and its crafting to argue that and demonstrate how Snodgrass, as a poet, reconstructs and reasserts himself as a father.

Návaznosti

MUNI/A/1606/2025, interní kód MU

Název: Jazyk, literatura, překlad a učitelství v anglofonních kontextech

Investor: Masarykova univerzita, Jazyk, literatura, překlad a učitelství v anglofonních kontextech

Citovat

KOKH, Mariia. Snodgrass’ (In-)conveniently selected memories : Reclaiming parental identity in “Heart’s Needle”. The Explicator. Philadelphia, PA: Routledge Journals, Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2026, roč. 84, č. 2, s. 276-282. ISSN 0014-4940. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2025.2533499.

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KOKH, Mariia. Snodgrass’ (In-)conveniently selected memories : Reclaiming parental identity in “Heart’s Needle”. \textit{The Explicator}. Philadelphia, PA: Routledge Journals, Taylor \&{} Francis Ltd, 2026, roč.~84, č.~2, s.~276-282. ISSN~0014-4940. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2025.2533499.

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