Background
Slinn, Errol Warwick was born on October 4, 1943 in Whangarei, New Zealand. Son of Eric and Alice Vera (Gaddis) Slinn.
(This book aims to explain what Browning meant by 'action ...)
This book aims to explain what Browning meant by 'action in character.' Slinn sees Browning as a psychological dramatist using the poetic genre. His concern is with dramatic monologue, which almost invariably focuses on conflicts of identity. Browning's characters, according to Slinn, must walk a tightrope between the distracting lives of others which threaten to fragment the individual's experience on the one hand, and controlled solipsism on the other.
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( In recent cultural studies, poetry has become something...)
In recent cultural studies, poetry has become something of a neglected genre. Warwick Slinn seeks to reverse that trend and argues that a fundamental continuity between the meaning of a poetic trope and the social function of language can be established through speech act theory―specifically through the linguistically based model of performativity. Victorian Poetry as Cultural Critique discusses five Victorian poems in order to show how their display of language enacts a cultural critique, examining the conditions and realization of social and political discourses. Slinn begins by distinguishing the main conceptual strands of performativity and then explains how each poem dramatizes a fluid mix of identity, power, and ideology. By foregrounding such events as speech acts, these poems expose the politics of power relationships and show how performative language is inextricable from the means by which power relationships are enacted. Focusing on the internal dynamics of specific poems, Slinn challenges the separation of poetic language from social criticism and eventually questions traditional perceptions of poetic form itself. The selected poems, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Arthur Hugh Clough, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Augusta Webster, offer a range of contentious issues that are in themselves politically challenging. The poets address such diverse and problematic concerns as slavery, sexual politics, prostitution, consciousness, agency, aestheticism, religious belief, and philosophical idealism. The discussion of each poem attends to the complexity of the poem’s utterance, its historical contexts, and its broader implications for cultural meaning. Victorian Literature and Culture Series
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( This book places Victorian poetry within the context of...)
This book places Victorian poetry within the context of a radical shift over the last 150 years in the key European model for human definition and experience- from the metaphor of self to the metaphor of text. In this innovative approach Warwick Slinn examines the continuities from Hegel to Derrida in order to explain the force and challenge poetry which disrupts the assumptions of idealist lyricism.
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Slinn, Errol Warwick was born on October 4, 1943 in Whangarei, New Zealand. Son of Eric and Alice Vera (Gaddis) Slinn.
Bachelor, University Canterbury, New Zealand, 1964. Master of Arts, University Canterbury, New Zealand, 1966. Master of Arts, University Hawaii, 1967.
Doctor of Philosophy, University British Columbia, Canada, 1971.
Teaching assistant University British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 1967-1969. Lecturer Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 1972-1990, associate professor, 1991—2002, professor, since 2003.
( This book places Victorian poetry within the context of...)
( In recent cultural studies, poetry has become something...)
(This book aims to explain what Browning meant by 'action ...)
Member Australasian Victorian Studies Association (president 1992-1996), Australasian Language and Literature Association (Vice-President 1987-1991).
Married Eunice Fisher, 1970 (divorced 1978). 1 child, Gareth Robert. Married Suzann Clair Olsson, 1979 (separated 1991).
1 child, Vaughan Richard.