This volume is about the type of work that poets perform and why it matters. Challenging the divide between inspired poetic production and other apparently lesser and contingent forms of labor, this book considers the poetry of Walt Whitman the real estate dealer, Herman Melville the customs inspector, and Hart Crane the copywriter.
This volume is about the type of work that poets perform and why it matters. Challenging the divide between inspired poetic production and other apparently lesser and contingent forms of labor, this book considers the poetry of Walt Whitman the real estate dealer, Herman Melville the customs inspector, and Hart Crane the copywriter.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
After completing his AHRC-funded PhD at the University of Cambridge in 2012, Peter Riley was appointed Early Career Fellow in American Literature at the University of Oxford (2012-2014), and then Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Exeter (2014-Present). He has also held Fellowships at the Rothermere American Institute and Linacre College, Oxford. He is a co-founder of BrANCA (British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists), and co-organised the inaugural BrANCA symposium 'Aesthetics/Politics' (2013), as well as the third biennial symposium 'The Not Yet of the Nineteenth-Century U.S' (2017). He also organised the International Walt Whitman Week at Exeter in 2016.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Whitman's Wallpaper and Poetry's Archives of Distraction Part I: Walt Whitman, Brooklyn Property Speculator 1: Leaves of Grass and Real Estate 2: Whitman and the Transformations of Labor Part II: Herman Melville, Deputy Customs Inspector 3: Moby-Dick and the Shadows of The Poet 4: Billy Budd and Melville's Retirement Part III: Hart Crane, Junior Copywriter 5: Classical Modernism and Impersonal Poetic Labor 6: Making Ends Meet: Hart Crane's Job Coda: Why I am not talking about Frank O'Hara
Introduction: Whitman's Wallpaper and Poetry's Archives of Distraction Part I: Walt Whitman, Brooklyn Property Speculator 1: Leaves of Grass and Real Estate 2: Whitman and the Transformations of Labor Part II: Herman Melville, Deputy Customs Inspector 3: Moby-Dick and the Shadows of The Poet 4: Billy Budd and Melville's Retirement Part III: Hart Crane, Junior Copywriter 5: Classical Modernism and Impersonal Poetic Labor 6: Making Ends Meet: Hart Crane's Job Coda: Why I am not talking about Frank O'Hara
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