For a poet who believes so much in poetry belonging to the voice, these works hold a special place and they have become firm favorites with the many fans who attend her public readings.
Author: Liz Lochhead
Publisher: Polygon
ISBN: 0954407539
Category: Poetry
Page: 144
View: 709
In True Confessions & New Cliches, Liz Lochhead has brought together a selection of the best of her raps, songs, sketches and monologues from her plays and revues. She pokes fun at the seriousness with which we deal with everyday events in touching and hilarious ways. For a poet who believes so much in poetry belonging to the voice, these works hold a special place and they have become firm favorites with the many fans who attend her public readings.
Suzanne Valadon Story,« True Confessions and New Clichés (Edinburgh:
Polygon, 1985) 20. Brennan 4. June Rose, Suzanne Valadon (New York: St.
Martin«s P, 1999) 58¥59. Therese Diamand Rosinsky, Suzanne Valadon (New
York: ...
Author: Laura Severin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351910606
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 128
View: 882
This study examines the performed poetry of Charlotte Mew, Anna Wickham, Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Liz Lochhead, and Jackie Kay as an alternative radical tradition of British poetry, developed to convey women's experience. Through a historical treatment in which the poets are discussed in pairs, the chapters trace how these six women used a performative poetry to deal with difficulties regarding women's representation: from simply presenting difference in the case of Mew and Wickham, to deconstructing difference in the case of Sitwell and Smith, to avoiding the recapture of cultural imagery in the case of Lochhead and Kay. Laura Severin claims that twentieth-century British women poets have been neglected by both feminist and more traditional literary critics because they cannot be read within available literary frameworks. Feminist criticism, in particular, has overlooked the value of other poetic ancestries by locating the only radical tradition of modern poetry in fractured form. At least one alternative radical tradition can be found in a narrative and performed poetry that maximizes its transgressive potential with multiple framing devices. Though a female poet always experiences difficulty in controlling both cultural imagery and her own public presentation, these framing devices work together both to deconstruct the essentialized category of woman and to recover the multiplicity of women's experience.
Hence True Confessions ' and the technique was ' taking the ( gentle ) mickey out
of women ( i . e . ourselves ) ' . 19 The tautology of ' true confessions and the
oxymoron of ' new clichés ' , signal the artfulness with which these raps , songs ...
Author: Douglas Gifford
Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: STANFORD:36105022388636
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 716
View: 499
This is the first comprehensive critical analysis of Scottish women's writing from its recoverable beginnings to the present day. Essays cover individual writers - such as Margaret Oliphant, Nan Shepherd, Muriel Spark and Liz Lochhead - as well as groups of writers or kinds of writing - such as women poets and dramatists, or Gaelic writing and the legacy of the Kailyard. In addition to poetry, drama and fiction, a varied body of non-fiction writing is also covered, including diaries, memoirs, biography and autobiography, didactic and polemic writing, and popular and periodical writing for and by women.
Betty T. Bennett, Stuart Curran. This is the way the Scottish poet Liz Lochhead,
one of the most popular contemporary British women poets, begins her poem ''
True Confessions,'' which opens her collection True Confessions and New Clichés, ...
Author: Betty T. Bennett
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801874628
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 328
View: 679
This volume advances Mary Shelley studies to a new level of discourse and raises important issues for English Romanticism and women's studies.
In True Confessions and New Clichés she selected the best of the raps , songs ,
sketches and monologues from her plays and revues . In characters such as Mrs
Abernethy with her shortbread , and Sharon who has a crush on the English ...
Author: Peter Parker
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: UOM:39015038429042
Category: American literature
Page: 825
View: 798
Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in a Nutshell provides a concise overview of a popular therapeutic approach, starting with the ABCDE Model of Emotional Disturbance and Change. Written by leading REBT specialists, Michael Neenan and Windy Dryden, the book goes on to explain the core of the therapeutic process: - Assessment - Disputing - Homework - Working through - Promoting self-change. As an introduction to the basics of the approach, this updated and revised edition of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy in a Nutshell is the ideal first text and a springboard to further study.
1981 1982 1982 – 4 1983 School of Art . This year and the next , lengthy periods
in New York , where she almost goes to live . ... Writes and performs True
Confessions with Siobhan Redmond and Esther Allan at the Tron Theatre Club ,
Glasgow , in August , and ... True Confessions and New Clichés published in July
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Author: Liz Lochhead
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015032443205
Category: Drama
Page: 198
View: 415
This is the first substantial study of the immensely popular writer and dramatist, Liz Lochhead. It examines the full range of her poetry and drama and supplies a variety of contexts - biographical, feminist and theatrical among others - in which her work can be read, heard, viewed and relished. One of the few books devoted to the work of a Scottish woman writer, and one of an even smaller number dealing in detail with contemporary Scottish drama, Liz Lochhead's Voices raises significant questions both for women's studies and Scottish literature in general. It includes the only extensive bibliography of Lochhead's writings, and is written in an accessible style which will appeal both to the student and to the general reader.
1972 Footprints New York : New Directions 1975 The Freeing of the Dust New
York : New Directions 1978 Life in the ... 1967–84 Edinburgh : Polygon 1985 True Confessions and New Cliches ( reprinted 1993 ) Edinburgh : Polygon 1991
...
... gloss on CLARE's MIDSUMMER CUSHION. LOCHHEAD, Liz: author of Memo
for Spring, Islands, Grimm Sisters, Dreaming Frankenstein, Bagpipe Muzak (
poetry), True Confessions and New Clichés (lyrics and monologues), Tartuffe (
Scots ...
Author: Alasdair Gray
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9781526626196
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 640
View: 250
This book is NOT a monster created by a literary Baron Frankenstein, but a unique history of how literature spread and developed through three British nations and most North American states. The result of a lifetime's reading and creative labour, intellectual and artistic, THE BOOK OF PREFACES will delight, amaze and inform both casual browsers and students. Its like will not be seen again for at least another millennium.
... 1981, about Mary SHELLEY, her 'first try at a real play'; it later became Blood
and Ice, produced in 1982, and in a new ... material from which appears in True Confessions and New Clichés, 1985 (True Confessions was the title of a work of
...
Lochhead has also created several dramatic monologues and performance
pieces , many of which are collected in True Confessions and New Cliches (
Polygon , 1985 ) . Her stage plays include Blood and Ice ( Salamander Press ,
1982 ) , a ...
... music - hall aesthetics can be found ' , generating experience for audiences
that is ' not private , but rather communal and consensual ' . 18 Lochhead ' s
performance pieces in True Confessions and New Clichés ( also incorporating '
Sugar ...
Author: Aileen Christianson
Publisher:
ISBN: UOM:39015050488074
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 186
View: 178
These essays fill a gap in critical response to contemporary Scottish women writers.
A plain speaking poet she uses the flat rhythms of ordinary speech , slang , puns
and cliches , making her poems narrative rather than descriptive . Her work
reflects the ... ML SP 821 . 914 LOC3 / DRE True confessions and new cliches .
... Carla Lane for The Liver Birds Jenny Lecoat for The Willy Song Helen Lederer
for stand - up routine extract Sue Limb for The Wordsmiths of Gorsemere Liz
Lochhead for True Confessions from True Confessions and New Cliches
Macmillan ...
In these contexts dead metaphor generates lively disturbance . A developing
attraction for live performance , evidenced in the raps and monologues which
comprise True Confessions and New Clichés ( 1985 ) , 4 brought some of these
issues ...
75 LEONARD , TOM ( 1944 - ) Using Glasgow speech patterns to create new
forms on the page , Leonard does not merely question but totally rejects
established literary ... 95 True Confessions and New Clichés [ XQ0276 ] Polygon
pbk pbk .
82 - 117 ; Cuba , in New Connections : New Plays for Young People ( London :
Faber & Faber , 1997 ) , pp . ... True Confessions do New Clichés ( Edinburgh :
Polygon , 1985 ) ; Tartuffe : A Translation into Scots from the Original by Molière ...
Author: Gale Cengage
Publisher: Dictionary of Literary Biograp
ISBN: STANFORD:36105119944119
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 461
View: 800
Embraces the work of writers working in theatrical traditions ranging from the classic well-made play to the most radical avant-garde pieces. This variety is indicative of the fact that this period is one of the most important in British drama, comparable to the late-Elizabethan/Jacobean and post-Restoration eras in terms of the quantity and quality of new work and surpassing both of them in the sheer variety of theatrical offerings.
In Bagpipe Muzak . Harmondsworth : Penguin , 1991 . Red Hot Shoes . Sections
published in True Confessions & New Clichés . Edinburgh : Polygon Books ,
1985 . Same Difference . Sections published in True Confessions & New Clichés
.
Author: William W. Demastes
Publisher: Greenwood
ISBN: STANFORD:36105018373600
Category: Literary Criticism
Page: 502
View: 370
The year 1956 marked a point when British drama and theater fell into the hands of a group of young playwrights who revolutionized the stage. Due to the contributions of playwrights such as Samuel Beckett, John Osborne, and Harold Pinter, the last four decades of British theater have been as rich and varied as any national theater in history. This reference includes entries for some three dozen British playwrights active from 1956 to 1995, with entries providing biographical, theatrical, critical, and bibliographical information.
... 1982 ) - True Confessions and New Clichés ( Edinburgh : Polygon , 1985 )
Tartuffe : A Translation Into Scots from the Original by Molière ( Edinburgh :
Polygon and Third Eye Centre , 1985 ) - Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head
Chopped off ...
Author: Randall Stevenson
Publisher:
ISBN: STANFORD:36105017782330
Category: Drama
Page: 240
View: 530
This is the first guide to the new Scottish theatre, its people, its politics, its companies and its audiences. Topical and often contentious, this book shows that drama deserves a central place in the current renaissance of Scottish literary culture.
... postmodernism in Uncommon Cultures : Popular Culture and Postmodernism (
New York , London : Routledge , 1989 ) ... Only Diamonds Are Forever ” , True Confessions and New Cliches ( Edinburgh : Polygon Books , 1985 ) and the
comic ...
