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

Redaktion: Fredman, Stephen

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405141444
• Artikelnr.: 38280409

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on Contributors viii Acknowledgments xi Chronology xii Introduction 1 Stephen Fredman 1 Wars I Have Seen 11 Peter Nicholls American poets' response to war
with particular attention to Ezra Pound
Gertrude Stein
Allen Ginsberg
Robert Duncan
George Oppen
Susan Howe
and Lyn Hejinian. 2 Pleasure at Home: How Twentieth-century American Poets Read the British 33 David Herd How US poets responded and reacted to British poetry
in particular
Romanticism
focusing on Robert Frost
Ezra Pound
T. S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams
Wallace Stevens
Marianne Moore
Cleanth Brooks
Charles Olson
Frank O'Hara
and Adrienne Rich. 3 American Poet-teachers and the Academy 55 Alan Golding Discusses the relationship between poets and the academy
with attention to Ezra Pound
the Fugitives
Charles Olson
the anthology wars
creative writing programs
African-American poetry
Charles Bernstein
and Language poetry. 4 Feminism and the Female Poet 75 Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller Twentieth-century poetry developed in the context of evolving feminist thought and activism
as demonstrated in the work of Marianne Moore
Gertrude Stein
H. D.
Muriel Rukeyser
Gwendolyn Brooks
Sylvia Plath
Adrienne Rich
Sonia Sanchez
and Harryette Mullen. 5 Queer Cities 95 Maria Damon The relationship between gay urban sensibility and poetic form
with discussions of Gertrude Stein
Djuna Barnes
Hart Crane
Frank O'Hara
Robert Duncan
Jack Spicer
and Allen Ginsberg. 6 Twentieth-century Poetry and the New York Art World 113 Brian M. Reed Poetic responses to New York's avant-garde tradition in the visual arts
with attention to Mina Loy
William Carlos Williams
Frank O'Hara
John Cage
John Ashbery
Jackson Mac Low
and Susan Howe. 7 The Blue Century: Brief Notes on Twentieth-century African-American Poetry 135 Rowan Ricardo Phillips Discusses the effect that the blues and jazz have had on twentieth-century African-American poets
including Paul Dunbar
Langston Hughes
Sterling Brown
Robert Hayden
Gayl Jones
Yusef Komunyakaa
and Michael Harper. 8 Home and Away: US Poetries of Immigration and Migrancy 151 A. Robert Lee The ongoing arrival of populations from beyond US borders and internal migration
as reflected in poetry - WASP to African American
Jewish to Latino/a
Euro-American to Native American. 9 Modern Poetry and Anticommunism 173 Alan Filreis A survey of the complex association of modern poetry and American communism (and anticommunism)
including discussions of Muriel Rukeyser
William Carlos Williams
Genevieve Taggard
Wallace Stevens
and Kenneth Fearing. 10 Mysticism: Neo-paganism
Buddhism
and Christianity 191 Stephen Fredman Why mysticism appeals to American poets and how it affects their poetry
focusing upon Ezra Pound
H. D.
T. S. Eliot
Robert Duncan
Charles Olson
John Cage
Gary Snyder
Allen Ginsberg
Denise Levertov
and Fanny Howe. 11 Poets and Scientists 212 Peter Middleton Shows how poets
including William Carlos Williams
Hart Crane
Wallace Stevens
Robert Creeley
Charles Olson
Ron Silliman
Myung Mi Kim
and Mei-mei Berssenbrugge have responded to modern technology and the new sciences of physics and genetics. 12 Philosophy and Theory in US Modern Poetry 231 Michael Davidson Addresses the role of ideas and theory in modern poetry
with examples drawn from Wallace Stevens
Ezra Pound
T. S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams
Gertrude Stein
the New Critics
and many others. Index 252

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