American Poetry And Culture 1945 80
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Author | : Robert Von Hallberg |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674030121 |
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Challenging the common perception of poets as standing apart from the mainstream of American culture, Robert von Hallberg gives us a fresh and unpredictable assessment of the poetry that has come directly out of the American experience since 1945. Who reads contemporary American poetry? More people than were reading new poetry in the 1920s, von Hallberg shows. How do poets respond to the public preoccupations of their readers? Often with fascination. Von Hallberg put the poems of Robert Creeley and John Ashbery together with the postwar outburst of systems analysis. The 1950s tourist poems of John Hollander, Adrienne Rich, W. S. Merwin, and James Merrill are treated as the cultural side of America's postwar rise to global political power There are chapters on the political poems of the 1950s and 1960s, and on Robert Lowell's sympathy for the imperialism of his liberal contemporaries. Poems of the 1970s on pop culture, especially Edward Dorn's Slinger, and some from the suburbs of the 1980s, are shown to reflect a curious peace between the literary and the mass cultures.
Author | : Robert Von Hallberg |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : American poetry |
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Author | : Stephen Stepanchev |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1961 |
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Author | : Martin Coyle |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 1458 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134977093 |
Download Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive guide yet both to the nature and content of literature, and to literary criticism. In ninety essays by leading international critics and scholars, the volume covers both traditional topics such as literature and history, poetry, drama and the novel, and also newer topics such as the production and reception of literature. Current critical ideas are clearly and provocatively discussed, while the volume's arrangement reflects in a dynamic way the rich diversity of contemporary thinking about literature. Each essay seeks to provide the reader with a clear sense of the full significance of its subject as well as guidance on further reading. An essential work of reference, The Encyclopedia of Literature and Criticism is a stimulating guide to the central preoccupations of contemporary critical thinking about literature. Special Features * Clearly written by scholars and critics of international standing for readers at all levels in many disciplines * In-depth essays covering all aspects, traditional and new, of literary studies past and present * Useful cross-references within the text, with full bibliographical references and suggestions for further reading * Single index of authors, terms, topics
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Publisher | : Cambria Press |
Total Pages | : 238 |
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ISBN | : 1621968642 |
Download New England Landscape History in American Poetry Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Alfred Bendixen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1442 |
Release | : 2014-10-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316123308 |
Download The Cambridge History of American Poetry Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Cambridge History of American Poetry offers a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their beginnings until the end of the twentieth century. Bringing together the insights of fifty distinguished scholars, this literary history emphasizes the complex roles that poetry has played in American cultural and intellectual life, detailing the variety of ways in which both public and private forms of poetry have met the needs of different communities at different times. The Cambridge History of American Poetry recognizes the existence of multiple traditions and a dramatically fluid canon, providing current perspectives on both major authors and a number of representative figures whose work embodies the diversity of America's democratic traditions.
Author | : Andrew Epstein |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2006-09-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0195343565 |
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Although it has long been commonplace to imagine the archetypal American poet singing a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with the drama of friendship. In this lucid and absorbing study, Andrew Epstein argues that an obsession with both the pleasures and problems of friendship erupts in the "New American Poetry" that emerges after the Second World War. By focusing on some of the most significant postmodernist American poets--the "New York School" poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and their close contemporary Amiri Baraka--Beautiful Enemies reveals a fundamental paradox at the heart of postwar American poetry and culture: the avant-garde's commitment to individualism and nonconformity runs directly counter to its own valorization of community and collaboration. In fact, Epstein demonstrates that the clash between friendship and nonconformity complicates the legendary alliances forged by postwar poets, becomes a predominant theme in the poetry they created, and leaves contemporary writers with a complicated legacy to negotiate. Rather than simply celebrating friendship and poetic community as nurturing and inspiring, these poets represent friendship as a kind of exhilarating, maddening contradiction, a site of attraction and repulsion, affinity and rivalry. Challenging both the reductive critiques of American individualism and the idealized, heavily biographical celebrations of literary camaraderie one finds in much critical discussion, this book provides a new interpretation of the peculiar dynamics of American avant-garde poetic communities and the role of the individual within them. By situating his extensive and revealing readings of these highly influential poets against the backdrop of Cold War cultural politics and within the context of American pragmatist thought, Epstein uncovers the collision between radical self-reliance and the siren call of the interpersonal at the core of postwar American poetry.
Author | : Sacvan Bercovitch |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 568 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521497336 |
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Multi-volume history of American literature.
Author | : Ben Hickman |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2012-03-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748644768 |
Download John Ashbery and English Poetry Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
A study of how we should read one of America's most important poets. Ben Hickman argues that we must attend to Ashbery's radical conception of reading if we are to understand the originality of his writing. His study focuses on Ashbery's reading of English poets, including Andrew Marvell, John Donne, William Wordsworth, John Clare, T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, and examines Ashbery's writing in terms of an 'aesthetic of inattention'. Hickman critiques the Americanisation of Ashbery's work as well as common assumptions about his Romanticism, his avant-garde Modernism and his engagement with the historical present. He demonstrates that Ashbery's generosity as a writer is closely tied to his generosity, inattention and situatedness as a reader.
Author | : P. Gwiazda |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2014-11-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137466278 |
Download US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012 Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Examining poetry by Robert Pinsky, Adrienne Rich, and Amiri Baraka, among others, this book shows that leading US poets since 1979 have performed the role of public intellectual through their poetic rhetoric. Gwiazda's argument aims to revitalize the role of poetry and its social value within an era of global politics.