Unplanned cities in modern American poetry : lyrical challenges to utopianism / Daniela Kukrechtová.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kukrechtová, Daniela, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American poetry.

Cities and towns in literature.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.

Summary:

"Through an urban ecocritical approach often missing in literary analyses of modern American poetry, Daniela Kukrechtová reveals how five modern American poets - Jean Toomer, William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Frank O'Hara, and Gwendolyn Brooks - challenged prevailing discourses about urbanization. She shows how these writers promoted the radical idea that cities were for people, and their texts both reveal that the extreme dystopian/utopian discourse helped create and maintain disparities between (racialized) affluent and impoverished urban areas, and also imagine and give voice to the people subject to the plans and policies behind the modern American city"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : A case for a contra-symbolic city in modern American poetry

"Remove the [red] tape" of respectability : Jazzy transformations in Jean Toomer's Washington, DC

"Who are these people" : William Carlos Williams walks with the crowd in Paterson, New Jersey

"Tilting ... momently" between the perfect city and the embodied urban experience : Subversive wordplay in Hart Crane’s The Bridge

Remembering “you” in the city : Toponyms and ludic spaces in Frank O’Hara’s kinesthetic poetry

The death and life of a Chicago edifice : Gwendolyn Brooks’s “In the Mecca".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Kukrechtová, Daniela. Unplanned cities in modern American poetry

ISBN:

9798765129197

9798765129173

9798765129180

OCLC:

1520505817

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