Charles Altieri

The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry (eBook, PDF)

Modernism and After

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. * * Encourages readers to identify with the modernists' sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art. * * Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s. * * Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry. * * Includes close readings of particular poems which show how readers can use these works to connect with what concerns them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405152273
• Artikelnr.: 38280710

Autorenporträt

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).