A concise companion to twentieth-century American poetry /
This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life. Written by prominent specialists in the field, the volume helps readers to appreciate the poetry by situating it within...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell,
2005.
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| Series: | Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life. Written by prominent specialists in the field, the volume helps readers to appreciate the poetry by situating it within overlapping historical and cultural contexts, including: war; feminism and the female poet; "queer cities"; the influence of the New York art world; African-American poetry and blues; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; and philosophy and theory. Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another; and each one balances documentary coverage of context with sharp commentary upon specific poems. The Companion forms an ideal introduction to twentieth-century American poetry for students, while its new syntheses will make it of interest to scholars as well. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1405141441 9781405141444 9781405120029 9781405120036 1405120029 1405120037 9780470757680 047075768X 9781405164917 1405164913 128019877X 9781280198779 |