Everyday reading : poetry and popular culture in modern America /
Everyday Reading is the first full-length critical study of the culture surrounding American popular and commercial poetry in the twentieth century. Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, among other unconventi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Everyday Reading is the first full-length critical study of the culture surrounding American popular and commercial poetry in the twentieth century. Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, among other unconventional sources, Mike Chasar casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers in different and complex ways. Capturing American poetry's truly diverse forms and appeal, Chasar shows how the genre helped set the stage?before television, rock mu.sic, vid. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780231530774 (ebk.) 0231530773 (ebk.) |