Altieri The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Modernism and After
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5227-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Introductions to Literature

Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction tomodernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can begenerated by a careful reading of modernist poems.

* * Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' senseof the revolutionary possibilities of their art.

* * Embraces four generations of modernist American poets upthrough to the 1980s.

* * Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionmentsand the continuities of modernist poetry.

* * Includes close readings of particular poems which show howreaders can use these works to connect with what concernsthem.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Altieri, Charles

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments.
List of Abbreviations.
1 Introduction: The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: AnOverview.
2 The New Realism in Modernist Poetry: Pound and Williams.
3 The Doctrine of Impersonality and Modernism's War onRhetoric: Eliot, Loy, and Moore.
4 How Modernist Poetics Failed and Efforts at Renewal: Williams,Oppen, and Hughes.
5 The Return to Rhetoric in Modernist Poetry: Stevens andAuden.
6 Modernist Dilemmas and Early Post-Modernist Responses.
Notes.
Works Cited.
Further Reading.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Charles Altieri is Stageberg Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His previous publications include The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects (2003), Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-person Expressivity and its Social Implications (Blackwell, 1994), Postmodernism Now (1999), and Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry (1990).