Soldering the Abyss:: Emily Dickinson and Modern American Poetry - Brossura

Ladin, Joy

Brossura

ISBN 10: 3639158962 ISBN 13: 9783639158960

Casa editrice: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2010

Riassunto

In the second decade of the twentieth century, poets from a country that had till then been regarded as a literary backwater reinvented poetry in English, pioneering poetic techniques and approaches to language that shaped and continue to shape poetry around the world. The names of these poets are famous - Eliot, Pound, Stevens, Moore, Williams, Frost - and their works long canonized, yet scholars continue to disagree about what common purpose or technique is at the root of their revolutionary "modernization" of poetry. "Soldering the Abyss" illuminates the roots of modern American poetry by examining their innovations in relation to their idiosyncratic predecessor, Emily Dickinson. Dickinson's poems, written half a century before, in the absence of most of the circumstances usually credited with giving rise to literary modernism, exhibit all of modern American poetry's signature innovations. Dickinson's combination of these innovations suggests a pre-twentieth century origin for modern American poetry: the epistemological instability of American public discourse.

Su questo libro

L'autore

Joy Ladin is David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English at Yeshiva University. The recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and an American Council of Learned Societies Research Fellowship. She is the author of three books of poetry - Transmigration, The Book of Anna and Alternatives to History - from Sheep Meadow Press.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3639158962
• ISBN 13: 9783639158960
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 196