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Poets beyond the barricade : rhetoric, citizenship, and dissent after 1960 / Dale M. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Dale, 1967-
- Series:
- Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
- Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Protest poetry, American--History and criticism.
- Protest poetry, American.
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--21st century--History and criticism.
- Literature and society--United States.
- Literature and society.
- Politics and literature--United States.
- Politics and literature.
- War and literature--United States.
- War and literature.
- Dissenters--United States.
- Dissenters.
- Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature.
- Persuasion (Psychology) in literature.
- Poets, American--20th century--Political and social views.
- Poets, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (198 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Since the cultural conflicts over the Vietnam War and civil rights protests, poets and poetry have consistently raised questions surrounding public address, social relations, friction between global policies and democratic institutions, and the interpretation of political events and ideas. In Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960, Dale Smith makes meaningful links among rhetoric, literature, and cultural studies, illustrating how poetry and discussions of it shaped public consciousness from the socially volatile era of the 1960's...
- Contents:
- "Dear Gloucester"
- Rhetorics of "advantage" and "pure persuasion" : Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, and Vietnam
- Public witness/public mind : media, citizenship, and dissent in the poetry of Lorenzo Thomas and Edward Dorn
- Poets against war
- Afterword : poetry as a modality of rhetoric in modernist inquiry.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8173-8592-4
- OCLC:
- 772845362
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