Andrew Epstein (Florida State University)

The Cambridge Introduction to American Poetry Since 1945

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Designed for students, scholars, poets, and general readers, this book provides a useful guide for anyone interested in contemporary American poetry. By offering close readings of exemplary poems in relation to historical and political contexts, this book gives readers the background and tools necessary to understand post-1945 American poetry.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Introductions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 442g
• ISBN-13: 9781108712125
• ISBN-10: 1108712126
• Artikelnr.: 65583583

Autorenporträt

Andrew Epstein is a Professor of English at Florida State University. He is the author of Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture (2016) and Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry (2006) and he blogs about the New York School of poetry at Locus Solus.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. American poetry since 1945
Part I. American Poetry from 1945 to 1970:
1. The raw and the cooked: the new criticism versus the new American poetry
2. The Black Mountain poets
3. The beats and the San Francisco renaissance
4. The New York school of poetry
5. The middle generation, Elizabeth Bishop, and confessional poetry
6. Deep image poetry
7. African American poetry from 1945 to 1970
Part II. American Poetry from 1970 to 2000:
8. A new 'mainstream' period style in poetry of the 1970s and 1980s
9. Language poetry
10. Feminism and women's poetry from 1970 to 2000
11. Diversity, identity, and poetry from 1970 to 2000
Part III. Into the New Millennium: American Poetry from 2000 to the Present:
12. New directions in American poetry from 2000 to the present
Conclusion.