Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics – serie
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Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Av A. Mikkelsen
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden , Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political …
(Re:)Working the Ground
Essays on the Late Writings of Robert Duncan
Av J. Maynard
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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This collection of essays focuses on the remarkable late writings of Robert Duncan. Although praised by reviewers, Duncan's last two books of poetry have yet to receive the critical attention they merit. Written by a cast of emerging and established scholars, these essays bring together a diverse …
Ronald Johnson’s Modernist Collage Poetry
Av R. Hair
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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Using a critical examination of the collage poetics of Ronald Johnson, this book sets out to understand Johnson's poetry in the context of the "New American" collage tradition, stretching from Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky and beyond. Additionally, the book assesses Johnson's work in relation to …
Poetry After the Invention of América
Don’t Light the Flower
Av A. Ajens
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book …
Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History
Tolson, Hughes, Baraka
Av K. Schultz
Inbunden, 2013
634 kr
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Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within the context of Classical epic traditions, early 20th-century American modernist long poems, and the griot traditions of West Africa, Schultz reveals diasporic consciousness in …
Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson
The American Cratylus
Inbunden, 2009
634 kr
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This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most intellectually ambitious of American writers: Walt Whitman, Laura …
Women's Poetry and Popular Culture
Inbunden, 2011
634 kr
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Bridging feminist and cultural studies, the book shows how British and American women poets often operate as cultural insiders. Individual chapters reassess major figures (H.D., Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath), alternative modernist poets (Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith), and contemporary poets (Ai, …
Social Life of Poetry
Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism
Av C. Green
Inbunden, 2010
634 kr
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From Jewish publishers to Appalachian poets, Green s cultural study reveals the role of "Mountain Whites" in American racial history. Part One (1880-1935) explores the networks that created American pluralism, revealing Appalachia s essential role in shaping America s understanding of African …
Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in "New American" Poetry
Av A. Mossin
Inbunden, 2010
634 kr
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Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this book suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to American poets in the wake of Donald Allen's 'New American Poetry' anthology.
Modernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse
H.D., Loy, and Toomer
Av L. Vetter
Inbunden, 2010
634 kr
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Addresses the early twentieth-century intersection of scientific and religious discourse exploring literary modernism through the lens of cultural history, focusing on the works of H.D., Mina Loy, and Jean Toomer. It covers a range of topics such as electromagnetism and sexuality, dance, and …
Poetry of Susan Howe
History, Theology, Authority
Inbunden, 2010
634 kr
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The Poetry of Susan Howe provides a comprehensive survey of the major works of one of America's foremost contemporary poets. The book describes the relationship between poetic form and the various configurations of history, religious thought, and authority in Howe's writing. Will Montgomery argues …
New York School Collaborations
The Color of Vowels
Inbunden, 2013
634 kr
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Ranging from conceptual theater to visual poetry the New York School explored the possibilities of collaboration like no other group of American poets. New York School Collaborations gathers essays from a diverse group of scholars on the alliances and artistic co-productions of New York School …
Poetics of the American Suburbs
Av Jo Gill
Inbunden, 2013
634 kr
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The first scholarly study of the rich body of poetry that emerged from the post-war American suburbs, Gill evaluates the work of forty poets, including Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes, and John Updike. Combining textual analysis and archival research, this book offers a new perspective on the field of …
Women's Poetry and Popular Culture
Häftad, 2013
634 kr
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Bridging feminist and cultural studies, the book shows how British and American women poets often operate as cultural insiders. Individual chapters reassess major figures (H.D., Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath), alternative modernist poets (Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith), and contemporary poets (Ai, …
Delmore Schwartz
A Critical Reassessment
Av A. Runchman
Inbunden, 2014
634 kr
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Taking as its starting point Delmore Schwartz's self-appointment as both a 'poet of the Hudson River' and 'laureate of the Atlantic,' this book comprehensively reassesses the poetic achievement of a critically neglected writer. Runchman reads Schwartz's poetry in relation to its national and …
Poetics of Waste
Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith
Av C. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2014
634 kr
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Modernist debates about waste - both aesthetic and economic - often express biases against gender and sexual errancy. The Poetics of Waste looks at writers and artists who resist this ideology and respond by developing an excessive poetics.
US Poetry in the Age of Empire, 1979-2012
Av P. Gwiazda
Inbunden, 2014
632 kr
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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 …
Writing Australian Unsettlement
Modes of Poetic Invention 1796-1945
Inbunden, 2015
1070 kr
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A bold work of synthetic scholarship, Writing Australian Unsettlement argues that the history of Australian literature contains the rough beginnings of a new literacy. Michael Farrell reads songs, letters and visual poems by Indigenous farmers and stockmen, the unpunctuated journals of early …
Global Anglophone Poetry
Literary Form and Social Critique in Walcott, Muldoon, de Kok, and Nagra
Av Omaar Hena
Inbunden, 2015
634 kr
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Poetry's relevancy as a tool for social and political change continues to be overlooked in a global context. Looking to writers as diverse as Derek Walcott, Paul Muldoon, and Daljit Nagra, Hena shows that poets throughout the world have reinvigorated older poetic traditions to address political …
Modernist Legacies
Trends and Faultlines in British Poetry Today
Av David Nowell Smith, Abigail Lang
Inbunden, 2015
634 kr
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The first collection of essays dedicated to experimental practice in contemporary British poetry, Modernist Legacies provides an overview of the most notable trends in the past 50 years. Contributors discuss a wide range of poets including Caroline Bergvall and Barry MacSweeney, showing these …
Poetics of Global Solidarity
Modern American Poetry and Social Movements
Inbunden, 2015
634 kr
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Tackling topics such as globalization and political activism, this book traces engaged poetics in 20th century American poetry. Spahr provides a comprehensive view of activist poetry, starting with the Great Depression and the Harlem Renaissance and moving to the Beats and contemporary writers such …
Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Av A. Mikkelsen
Häftad, 2011
633 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden , Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political …
(Re:)Working the Ground
Essays on the Late Writings of Robert Duncan
Av J. Maynard
Häftad, 2011
633 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection of essays focuses on the remarkable late writings of Robert Duncan. Although praised by reviewers, Duncan's last two books of poetry have yet to receive the critical attention they merit. Written by a cast of emerging and established scholars, these essays bring together a diverse …
Ronald Johnson’s Modernist Collage Poetry
Av R. Hair
Häftad, 2011
633 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Using a critical examination of the collage poetics of Ronald Johnson, this book sets out to understand Johnson's poetry in the context of the "New American" collage tradition, stretching from Ezra Pound to Louis Zukofsky and beyond. Additionally, the book assesses Johnson's work in relation to …
Poetry After the Invention of América
Don’t Light the Flower
Av A. Ajens
Häftad, 2011
633 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book …
Afro-Modernist Epic and Literary History
Tolson, Hughes, Baraka
Av K. Schultz
Häftad, 2013
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts the Afro-Modernist epic. Within the context of Classical epic traditions, early 20th-century American modernist long poems, and the griot traditions of West Africa, Schultz reveals diasporic consciousness in …
Social Life of Poetry
Appalachia, Race, and Radical Modernism
Av C. Green
Häftad, 2010
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From Jewish publishers to Appalachian poets, Green s cultural study reveals the role of "Mountain Whites" in American racial history. Part One (1880-1935) explores the networks that created American pluralism, revealing Appalachia s essential role in shaping America s understanding of African …
Modernism and Poetic Inspiration
The Shadow Mouth
Av J. Rasula
Häftad, 2015
634 kr
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The sites of inspiration documented in this book range from nineteenth century linguistic theory to postmodern strategies of conceptual writing, encompassing well known instances of modernist poetics (Mallarmé, Pound, Olson) alongside obscure but revealing figures like Otto Nebel and Henri-Martin …
Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in "New American" Poetry
Av A. Mossin
Häftad, 2010
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this book suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to American poets in the wake of Donald Allen's 'New American Poetry' anthology.
Modernist Writings and Religio-scientific Discourse
H.D., Loy, and Toomer
Av L. Vetter
Häftad, 2010
634 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Addresses the early twentieth-century intersection of scientific and religious discourse exploring literary modernism through the lens of cultural history, focusing on the works of H.D., Mina Loy, and Jean Toomer. It covers a range of topics such as electromagnetism and sexuality, dance, and …
