10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNDERVOICE»
Discover the use of
undervoice in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
undervoice and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Don DeLillo: The Possibility of Fiction
As Hoover reflects, somewhat ruefully, the voice of the dominant power has '
always' been accompanied by what he thinks of as an 'undervoice'; a dangerous
vocal undertow which is difficult to separate from the official language, but which
has ...
2
American Magic and Dread: Don DeLillo's Dialogue with Culture
Despite his efforts, however, the Director knows that he will never totally silence
the "undervoice" ( U 563) welling up from the psychic and social underground.
That undervoice speaks during the Black- and-White Ball scene (set in 1966),
when ...
3
Adrienne Rich: The Moment of Change
SNAPSHOTS OF A DAUGHTER-IN-LAW (1963) If Rich could say of The
Diamond Cutters that it was her "last-ditch effort to block . . . the undervoice of my
own poetry" (CEP xix), in Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law she removes all block
to or ...
Cheri Colby Langdell,
2004
4
TABOO, MAGIC, SPIRITS: A STUDY OF PRIMITIVE ELEMENTS IN ...
Prayers Uttered in an Undervoice Normallyprayers wereuttered aloud by the
Romans. But wehavereason to believethatattimes they were chanted inan
undervoice.We know that magic riteswere commonly accompanied by
anincantation which ...
5
Performing the Past: A Study of Israeli Settlement Museums
This undervoice breaks through at particular narrative junctures, as in the story
about the pioneer Yankelevich, a typical pioneer and an extraordinary person
who Binyamin claimed he had known personally and admired a lot (interview, ...
This is the lesson of the undervoice in The Making ofAmericans” (Ruddick [1990],
91). The formal principle of the incantatory repetition not only resists the linear
and progressive narrativity of bourgeois poetics, but through the association with
...
Astradur Eysteinsson, Vivian Liska,
2007
7
Grasping Land: Space and Place in Contemporary Israeli ...
The narrative voice celebrating “progress” is repeatedly interrupted by a nostalgic
undervoice filled with longing for a past shaped by heroic values and deeds, an
ethos of production glorifying manual labor and a close contact with the land as ...
Eyal Ben-Ari, Yoram Bilu,
2012
The new, conflicting voice—the Undervoice, as Tim now thought of it—boomed
back: How could you stop now, even ifyou wanted to? Don't you want to know,
Tim? Don't you NEED to know? The blade slit through bands of taut sinew to
reveal ...
9
A Door Ajar : Contemporary Writers and Emily Dickinson: ...
She thinks of this as the "undervoice" of straightforward discourse and often uses
the image of stuttering or stammering to describe it: This tradition that I hope I am
part of has involved a breaking of boundaries of all sorts. It involves a fracturing ...
Thomas Gardner Professor of English Virginia Tech,
2006
not invited to enter, but the door was opened to him by his lordship's very
superior valet, who appeared to regard his intrusion as a form of sacrilege,
demanding to know, in an outraged undervoice, what he wanted. 'It's urgent, Mr
Knapp!
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNDERVOICE»
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undervoice is used in the context of the following news items.
The Powerful Poetry and Politics of Adrienne Rich
... “many of the poems in The Diamond Cutters seem to me now a last-ditch effort to block, with assimilation and technique, the undervoice of my own poetry. «Slate Magazine, Mar 12»