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Modern American poetry : points of access / Kornelia Freitag, Brian Reed (eds.).
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Anglistik & Englischunterricht ; 79.
- Anglistik und Englischunterricht, 0344-8266 ; Band 79
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2013]
- Summary:
- Hauptbeschreibung How to read - and how to teach poetry? The present volume on ''Modern American Poetry'' assembles ten essays that distill and share tips, facts, arguments, interpretations, and techniques that a number of German and American scholars believe to be helpful when reading and teaching American poetry. The essays introduce topics such as the poetry of war and postmodern poetic experimentation, dwell on teaching Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Frank O''Hara, and relate the experiences of translating texts by the African American poet June Jordan in the classroom. Imagism and c
- Contents:
- Contents; Kornelia Freitag, Brian M. Reed - Introduction: How to Read; Lisa Simon - Teaching War Poetry: A Dialogue Between the Grit and the Glory; Sabine Sielke - On the Challenges and Rewards of Teaching and Studying Emily Dickinson; Susanne Rohr - On Being in Love with the World: Gertrude Stein''s ""Tender Buttons""; Wolfgang Wicht - ""Language is made out of concrete things"": The Imagist Movement and the Beginning of Anglo-American Modernism; Brian M. Reed - Confessional Poetry: Staging the Self; Heinz Ickstadt - Frank O''Hara and the ""New York School"": Poetry and Painting in the 1950s
- David Huntsperger - Postmodern Poetic Form in the ClassroomWalter Grünzweig, Julia Sattler - People''s Poetry: Translation as a Collective Experience; Kornelia Freitag - Contemporary Indian-American Poetry: At the Crossroads of Cultures; Martina Pfeiler - No Rules But in Schools?: Teaching and Learning from Slam Poetry
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 27, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9783825373771
- 3825373770
- OCLC:
- 858762372
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