Description |
258 p. ; 24 cm. |
Series |
Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture series |
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Blackwell concise companions to literature and culture.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Wars I have seen / Peter Nicholls -- Pleasure at home: how twentieth-century American poets read the British / David Herd -- American poet-teachers and the academy / Alan Golding -- Feminism and the female poet / Lynn Keller, Cristanne Miller -- Queer cities / Maria Damon -- Twentieth-century poetry and the New York art world / Brian M. Reed -- The blue century: brief notes on twentieth-century African-American poetry / Rowan Ricardo Phillips -- Home and away: US poetries of immigration and migrancy / A. Robert Lee -- Modern poetry and anticommunism / Alan Filreis -- Mysticism: neo-paganism, Buddhism, and Christianity / Stephen Fredman -- Poets and scientists / Peter Middleton -- Philosophy and theory in US modern poetry / Michael Davidson. |
Summary |
Written by prominent specialists in the field, this book places the poetry of the 20th century within contexts such as war, feminism & the female poet, poetries of immigration & migration, communism & anticommunism, philosophy & theory. |
Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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Added Author |
Fredman, Stephen, 1948-
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ISBN |
9781405120029 (hardcover) |
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9781405120036 (pbk.) |
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1405120029 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
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1405120037 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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