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Poets beyond the barricade : rhetoric, citizenship, and dissent after 1960 /

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Since the cultural conflicts over the Vietnam War and civil rights protests, poets and poetry have consistently raised questions surrounding public address, social relations, friction between global policies and democratic institutions, and the interpretation of political events and ideas. In Poets...

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Main Author: Smith, Dale, 1967-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2012.
Series:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Subjects:
Protest poetry, American > History and criticism.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
American poetry > 21st century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States.
Politics and literature > United States.
War and literature > United States.
Dissenters > United States.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature.
Persuasion (Psychology) in literature.
Poets, American > 20th century > Political and social views.
Literature.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. "Dear Gloucester"
  • 2. Rhetorics of "Advantage" and "Pure Persuasion": Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, and Vietnam
  • 3. Public Witness/Public Mind: Media, Citizenship, and Dissent in the Poetry of Lorenzo Thomas and Edward Dorn
  • 4. Poets Against War
  • Afterword: Poetry as a Modality of Rhetoric in Modernist.