Poetry and cultural studies : a reader /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Damon, Maria, 1955-, Livingston, Ira, 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2009]
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Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Maria Damon and Ira Livingston
  • Precursors. Preface to Lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth ; Two essays on poetry and society / Theodor Adorno ; On some motifs in Baudelaire / Walter Benjamin ; What is a minor literature? / Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari ; Of the sorrow songs / W.E.B. Du Bois ; A theory of discourse / Antony Easthope
  • Ethnography. Some aspects of folk poetry / Américo Paredes ; The signifying monkey and the language of signifyin(g) : rhetorical difference and the orders of meaning / Henry Louis Gates Jr. ; Shifting politics in Bedouin love poetry / Lila Abu-Lughod ; The poetic construction of self / Steven C. Caton ; Tell them about us : some poems from Southie / Maria Damon
  • Mass culture/Cultural politics. The bride of the assembly line : radical poetics in construction / Barrett Watten ; Assembly poetics in the global economy : Nicaragua / Bruce Campbell ; Black texts/Black contexts / Tricia Rose ; Kickin' reality, kickin' ballistics : gangsta rap and postindustrial Los Angeles / Robin D.G. Kelley ; Poetry for the people / Amitava Kumar ; La Douceur du foyer : lyric poetry of the year 1857 as a model for the communication of social norms / Hans Robert Jauss
  • National (de)formations. Smoke rings : worker-poets in the France of Louis-Philippe / Jacques Rancière ; Rimbaud and the transformation of social space / Kristin Ross ; Poetry and the public : the social form of modern U.S. poetics / Joseph Harrington ; Nation and imagination / Dipesh Chakrabarty ; Angel Island and the poetics of error / Yunte Huang ; "HOO, HOO, HOO" : some episodes in the construction of modern male whiteness / Rachel Blau DuPlessis
  • Subject (de)formations. A poem is being written / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick ; A musician is being beaten / John Mowitt ; Poetry and anthropology / Trinh T. Minh-ha ; Poetry is not a luxury / Audre Lorde ; A blow is like an instrument / Charles Bernstein
  • Reinventing tradition. Sappho is burning : fragmentary introduction / Page DuBois ; Genocide, modernism, and American verse : reading Diana Der-Hovanessian / Walter Kalaidjian ; The forms of things unknown / Stephen Henderson ; History of the voice, 1979-1981 / Kamau Brathwaite ; Of poetry and power : Maya Angelou on the inaugural stage / Zofia Burr ; Nuyorican language / Miguel Algarín.