Hart Crane's 'The Bridge' (häftad)
Format
Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
164
Utgivningsdatum
2011-03-07
Upplaga
annotated ed
Förlag
Fordham University Press
Medarbetare
Kramer, Lawrence (red.)
Illustrationer
10 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensioner
231 x 150 x 23 mm
Vikt
386 g
Antal komponenter
1
Komponenter
11:B&W 6 x 9 in or 229 x 152 mm Gray Digital Cloth Cover w/Jacket on Creme w/Gloss Lam
ISBN
9780823233076

Hart Crane's 'The Bridge'

An Annotated Edition

Inbunden,  Engelska, 2011-03-07
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Hart Crane's long poem The Bridge has steadily grown in stature since it was published in 1930. At first branded a noble failure by a few influential critics a charge that became conventional wisdomthis panoramic work is now widely regarded as one of the finest achievements of twentieth-century American poetry. It unites mythology and modernity as a means of coming to terms with the promises, both kept and broken, of American experience. The Bridge is also very difficult. It is well loved but not well understood. Obscure and indirect allusions abound in it, some of them at surprisingly fine levels of detail. The many references to matters of everyday life in the 1920s may baffle or elude todays readers. The elaborate compound metaphors that distinguish Cranes style bring together diverse sources in ways that make it hard to say what, if anything, is going on in the text. The poem is replete with topical and geographical references that demand explication as well as identification. Many passages are simply incomprehensible without special knowledge, often special knowledge of a sort that is not readily available even today, when Google and Wikipedia are only a click away. Until now, there has been no single source to which a reader can go for help in understanding and enjoying Cranes vision. There has been no convenient guide to the poems labyrinthine complexities and to its dense network of allusionsthe thousands of strands that, Crane boasted, had to be sorted out, researched, and interwoven to compose the work. This book is that guide. Its detailed and far-reaching annotations make The Bridge fully accessible, for the first time, to its readers, whether they are scholars, students, or simply lovers of poetry.
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"Kramer's edition will be an unqualified boon to anyone who wants to introduce students to Crane. And that is because students themselves have had a hand in producing the superb annotations here. Thanks to this version, the difficulty of reading The Bridge will no longer be an obstacle to teaching and studying Crane's great poem." -- -Robert L. Caserio The Pennsylvania State University "No great poem is more deceptively titled than The Bridge, a work whose restless dynamics exceed all architectural containment. Hart Crane set out to celebrate America but what he produced was a rhapsody to New York City, conceived as a fount of immense power and ideal perch for assessing national values in a "Jazz Age." And now, under Lawrence Kramer's capacious annotation, The Bridge expands into its fullest dimensions, becoming historical fantasia, dream-text, combative retort, personal document, national epic, queer libretto, and machine-age homage. Frank O'Hara's claim that Crane's writing is "better than the movies" is exuberantly realized in Kramer's detailed dramaturgy." -- -Edward Brunner author of Splendid Failure: Hart Crane and the Making of The Bridge "Hart Crane's The Bridge is generally agreed to be one of the great long poems of the early twentieth-century, but its obscure allusions and habitual double entendres have made it a difficult poem to digest. Lawrence Kramer's excellent annotated edition, produced with the help of a devoted group of graduate students, thus fills what is a real lacuna. Not only are Kramer's annotations deeply learned and precise; they also display great tact and common sense, refusing to overwhelm us with data or tangential matter. No student of Hart Crane-indeed no lover of Modernist poetry-will want to be without this necessary edition of The Bridge." -- -Marjorie Perloff Professor Emerita, Stanford University

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Hart Crane (1899-1932) was one of the preeminent poets of American modernism.