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dc.contributor.authorMcDonald, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-22T08:34:51Z
dc.date.available2019-10-22T08:34:51Z
dc.date.issued2017-03-30
dc.identifier.citationMcDonald, P. (2017) ‘Make Sure You Don’t Murder Your Coffee!’ Comedy and Violence in the Poetry of Luke Kennard, Sillages critiques, 22(2017). http://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4840en
dc.identifier.issn1272-3819en
dc.identifier.doi10.4000/sillagescritiques.4840
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/622870
dc.description© 2017 The Authors. Published by Open Editions. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://doi.org/10.4000/sillagescritiques.4840en
dc.description.abstractThis paper discusses the relationship between comedy, violence, and postmodernism in the work of the British poet, Luke Kennard. It has been argued that British poets of the twentieth century have an ambivalent relationship with postmodernism because, while they accept that certainty is elusive, they refuse to ignore meaning and value, and their writing frequently exhibits “an ethical demand.” I claim that this can also be said of Kennard’s twenty first century postmodernist writing. In an analysis of his popular poem, ‘The Murderer,’ I show that what initially seems to be a typically postmodern, morally disengaged treatment of violence, also employs characteristics associated with traditional comedy, and the combination of the two modes of humour creates a space in which values can be reclaimed.en
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dc.publisherSorbonne University Pressen
dc.relation.urlhttps://journals.openedition.org/sillagescritiques/4840en
dc.subjectLuke Kennarden
dc.subjectPostmodernismen
dc.subjectComedyen
dc.subjectPoetryen
dc.subjectblack humouren
dc.title'Make sure you don’t murder your coffee!’ Comedy and violence in the poetry of Luke Kennarden
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.identifier.journalSillages critiquesen
dc.date.updated2019-10-04T15:23:04Z
dc.date.accepted2016-07-26
rioxxterms.funderUniversity of Wolverhamptonen
rioxxterms.identifier.projectUOW22102019PMen
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rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2019-10-22en
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