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- W37044910 abstract "‘Social realism’ is a name for art which insists on the complexity of social existence. Life is too often simplified by art, too often travestied by ideological routines that make spiritual and economic impoverishment into a raw material to be worked up into artefacts of defensive middle class sentiment. Social realism argues against simplification, against the sympathetic complacencies of the middle class, and against the use of sentiment to arrest inquiry into the causes of suffering. One purpose of this essay is to suggest that it is now uncommonly difficult to find British ‘social realist’ poetry, not only because the poetry with a strong claim to that title has for decades been pressed out of public view by the editors, reviewers, broadcasters and publishers with a controlling interest in the British literary establishment, but also for the more complex reason that ‘social realist’ poetry as I understand it is defined by the imperative to radicalize the mode itself. Poetry will not be ‘social realist’ unless it can make a more radically truthful picture of life than the forms of representation that are popularly considered ‘realistic’. It is difficult to find poetry which does that, because the poetry which may do it is always, as a matter of principle, uncertain whether it does or not; social realism is an intensely self-critical and sceptical mode. It is sceptical about the value and the tendencies of poetic artifice, it is sceptical about rhetoric, rhyme, versification and metaphor, and its scepticism is not logical or linguistic, simply – not just a professional scepticism about semiosis and the power of words to designate objects or ‘signifieds’ – but moral and political. Its fundamental insistence is that poetic artifice is not morally or politically trivial, but capable of determining moral and political attitudes, by accident and by sleight as well as by open and programmatic persuasion; and it takes a special, intense interest in damaging practices of representation that make people insensitive to suffering or blind them to the extent of suffering and its complex material causes." @default.
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- W37044910 title "‘this/is not a metaphor’: The Possibility of Social Realism in British Poetry" @default.
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