The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition - Brossura

Stephen Fredman

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ISBN 10: 0521106745 ISBN 13: 9780521106740

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Riassunto

Stephen Fredman asserts in his work that American poetry is groundless - that each generation of American poets faces the problem of identity anew and has to discover fresh meaning for itself. His argument focuses on four pairs of poets - Eliot/Williams, Thoreau/Olson, Emerson/Duncan and Whitman/Creeley - and points out that although the later ones all were influenced by their predecessors to some extent, ultimately their poetry is, paradoxically, grounded in an essential groundlessness. In order to demonstrate how approaches to groundlessness have persisted over time, Fredman explores the various measures taken by these American poets to provide a provisional ground upon which to construct their poetry: inventing idiosyncratic traditions, forming poetic communities, engaging in polemical prose, assessing all the dimensions of particular places and treating words as emblematic and mysterious objects. At the very core of the book stands Charles Olson, whose work so dramatically articulates the whole range of issues arising from the American poet's anxious search for and resistance t, an authentic and unified tradition.

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"..six chapters of excellent close readings." Choice

"Cogent, persuasive and at times dazzling, this book makes an impressive and innovative contribution to understanding the influence of Emerson and the transcendentalists on the Black Mountain poets in particular, but also American poetic practice in general." Tim Woods, English

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Stephen Fredman asserts in his work that American poetry is groundless - that each generation of American poets faces the problem of identity anew and has to discover fresh meaning for itself.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• ISBN 10: 0521106745
• ISBN 13: 9780521106740
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 100