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Ballad collection, lyric, and the canon : the call of the popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism / Steve Newman.
LIBRA PR507 .N49 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newman, Steve, 1970-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballads, English--Great Britain--History and criticism.
- Ballads, English.
- Criticism.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Ballads, Scots--Scotland--History and criticism.
- Ballads, Scots.
- Scotland.
- Ballads in literature.
- Popular culture in literature.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Criticism--Great Britain--History.
- Criticism--United States--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- "Elegant and original in its formulations, "Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon" provides a new starting place for thinking about the presence and meanings of the ballad within modern poetics."--Anne Janowitz, Queen Mary University of London
- Contents:
- Why there no poetic justice in The beggar's opera : ballad, lyric, and the semiautonomy of culture
- Scots songs in the Scottish Enlightenment : pastoral, progress, and the lyric split in Allan Ramsay, John Home, and Robert Burns
- Addressing the problem of a lyric history : collecting Shakespeare's songs/Shakespeare as song collector
- Ballads and the problem of lyric violence in Blake and Wordsworth
- Reading as remembering and the subject of lyric : child ballads, children's ballads, and the New Criticism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-282) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780812240092
- 081224009X
- OCLC:
- 76898019
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