The Cambridge companion to modern American poetry / edited by Walter Kalaidjian, Emory University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kalaidjian, Walter B., 1952- editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Literature and society--United States--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

United States.

History.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 278 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Companion to modern American poetry

Modern American poetry

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Summary:

"The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by eighteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings, archival resources, and critical reception that define modern American poetry. The Companion stretches the narrow term of 'literary modernism' - which encompasses works published from approximately 1890 to 1945 - to include a more capacious and usable account of American poetry's evolution from the twentieth century to the present. The essays collected here seek to account for modern American verse against the contexts of broad political, social, and cultural fields and forces. This volume gathers together major voices that represent the best in contemporary critical approaches and methods"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1. The emergence of 'the new poetry' / John Timberman Newcomb; 2. Modern American archives and scrapbook modernism / Bartholomew Brinkman; 3. Experimental modernism / Alan Golding; 4. The legacy of New York / Cary Nelson; 5. The modern American long poem / Anne Day Dewey; 6. Objectivist poetry and poetics / Rachel Blau DuPlessis; 7. American poetry and the popular front / Alan Wald; 8. Tracking the fugitive poets / Kieran Quinlan; 9. Midcentury modernism / Stephen Burt; 10. American confessional verse / Michael Thurston; 11. Black mountain poetry / Kaplan Harris; 12. Beat poetry and the San Francisco renaissance / Maria Damon; 13. The black arts movement and black aesthetics / Evie Shockley; 14. New York School and American surrealist poetics / Edward J. Brunner; 15. Land, place, and nation: toward an indigenous American poetics / Janet McAdams; 16. Transpacific and Asian American counterpoetics / Yunte Huang; 17. Language poetry Barrett Watten; 18. Poet-critics and bureaucratic administration / Evan Kindley.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107040366

1107040361

9781107683280

1107683289

OCLC:

882620240

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