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A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry (eBook, PDF)

Beschreibung

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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Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405141444
• Artikelnr.: 38280409

Rezensionen

This book offers a fresh and comprehensive reading of modernAmerican poetry in several important ways. It takes in the whole ofthe twentieth century instead of dividing into decades like thetwenties and thirties or into periods labelled Modernism andPostmodernism. Moreover, instead of focusing on individual poets,the successive chapters relate an often overlapping range of poetsto the crucial and defining cultural issues within which the poetrytook form and direction and to which the poetry spoke. StephenFredman has assembled an extraordinary group of critics to writethe chapters. There is nothing else like this rich and trenchantbook in the field of modern poetry.

Albert Gelpi, Stanford University

If I had to recommend a

single book on the culture oftwentieth-American poetry to students or colleagues, I would chooseStephen Fredman's Concise Companion. Fredman wisely decided totreat the entire century as a whole rather than adopting the usualModernist/Postmodernist division or treating decades and poetsseparately. From the opening "Wars I Have Seen" to the finaltreatment of philosophy and theory in U.S. poetry, Fredman'scontributors carefully examine the intersecting worlds of ourpoetry-- 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 toprofit from these clearly written, concise, and truly expertchapters.

Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University