Concise Companion to 20th century American Poetry - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1405120037 ISBN 13: 9781405120036

Casa editrice: Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Riassunto

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 more broadly.

• Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts.
  
• Written by prominent specialists in the field.
  
• Places the poetry of the period within contexts such as: war; feminism and the female poet; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy and theory.
  
• Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another.
  
• New syntheses make the volume of interest to scholars as well as students and general readers.

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Recensione:

This book offers a fresh and comprehensive reading of modern American poetry in several important ways. It takes in the whole of the twentieth century instead of dividing into decades like the twenties and thirties or into periods labelled Modernism and Postmodernism. Moreover, instead of focusing on individual poets, the successive chapters relate an often overlapping range of poets to the crucial and defining cultural issues within which the poetry took form and direction and to which the poetry spoke. Stephen Fredman has assembled an extraordinary group of critics to write the chapters. There is nothing else like this rich and trenchant book in the field of modern poetry.

Albert Gelpi, Stanford University

If I had to recommend a single book on the culture of twentieth–American poetry to students or colleagues, I would choose Stephen Fredman′s Concise Companion. Fredman wisely decided to treat the entire century as a whole rather than adopting the usual Modernist/Postmodernist division or treating decades and poets separately. From the opening "Wars I Have Seen" to the final treatment of philosophy and theory in U.S. poetry, Fredman′s contributors carefully examine the intersecting worlds of our poetry–– the New York art world, the impact of various diasporas, and the curious intersections with politics, gender, and religion. Yet the poetry itself always comes first, and no reader can fail to profit from these clearly written, concise, and truly expert chapters.

Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University

L'autore:

Stephen Fredman is Professor of English and Department Chair at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of three books of criticism; Poet’s Prose: The Crisis in American Verse (1983), The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition (1993), and A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry (2001). He has translated three books from Spanish and is also the author of Seaslug, a book of poetry.

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• Editore: Wiley-Blackwell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1405120037
• ISBN 13: 9781405120036
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Redattore: Fredman Stephen