A History of American Poetry presents a comprehensive exploration of the development of American poetic traditions from their pre–Columbian origins to the present day.Offers a detailed and accessible account of the entire range of American poetrySituates the story of American poetry within crucial social and historical contexts, and places individual poets and poems in the relevant intertextual contextsExplores and interprets American poetry in terms of the international positioning and multicultural character of the United StatesProvides readers with a means to understand the individual works and personalities that helped to shape one of the most significant bodies of literature of the past few centuries INDICE: PrefaceCHAPTER ONE: THE AMERICAN POEM(i) The United States...the greatest poem(ii) The poem is you(iii) The breaking of the new wood(iv) Forging the uncreated conscience of the nationCHAPTER TWO: BEGINNINGS(i) In my beginning is my end(ii) The word and the Word: colonial poetry(iii) Towards the secular: colonial poetry(iv) Across the great divide: poetry of the South and the North(v) To sing the nation: American poetic voices(vi) To sing of freedom: African American voices(vii) Looking before and after: poetic voices of region and nationCHAPTER THREE: THE TURN TO THE MODERN: IMAGISM, OBJECTIVISM AND SOME MAJOR INNOVATORS(i) The revolution is accomplished(ii) The significance of Imagism(iii) From Imagism to Objectivism or Dream(iv) From Imagism to the redemption of history(v) From Imagism to contact and community(vi) From Imagism to discovery of the imaginationCHAPTER FOUR: IN SEARCH OF A PAST: THE FUGITIVE MOVEMENT AND THE MAJOR TRADITIONALIST(i) The precious, the incommunicable past(ii) The significance of the Fugitives(iii) Traditionalism and the South(iv) Traditionalism outside the South(v) Traditionalism, scepticism, and tragedy(vi) Traditionalism, quiet desperation, and belief(vii) Traditionalism, inhumanism, and prophecyCHAPTER FIVE: THE TRADITIONS OF WHITMAN: OTHER POETS FROM BETWEEN THE WARS(i) Make this America for us!(ii) Whitman and American populism(iii) Whitman and American radicalism(iv) Whitman, American identity and African American poetry(v) Whitman and American individualism(vi) Whitman and American experimentalism(vii) Whitman and American mysticismCHAPTER SIX: FORMALISTS AND CONFESSIONALS: AMERICAN POETRY SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR(i) A sad heart at the supermarket(ii) From the mythological eye to the lonely ?I?: a progress of American poetry since the war(iii) Varieties of the personal: the self as dream, landscape or confession(iv) From formalism to freedom: a progress of American poetic techniques since the war(v) The imagination of commitment: a progress of American poetic themes since the war(vi) The uses of formalism(vii) The confessional ?I? as primitive(viii) The confessional ?I? as historian(ix) The confessional ?I? as martyr(x) The confessional ?I? as prophet(xi) New formalists, new confessionalsCHAPTER SEVEN: BEATS, PROPHETS, AND AESTHETES: AMERICAN POETRY SINCE THE SECOND WORLD WAR(i) Who am I?(ii) Rediscovering the American voice: the Black Mountain poets(iii) Restoring the American vision: the San Francisco poets(iv) Recreating American rhythms: the Beat poets(v) Resurrecting the American rebel: African American poetry(vi) Reinventing the American self: the New York poets(vii) And the beat goes on: American poetry and virtual realityCHAPTER EIGHT: THE LANGUAGES OF AMERICAN POETRY AND THE LANGUAGE OF CRISIS: AMERICAN POETRY INTO THE TWENTY–FIRST CENTURY(i) What is the language of American literature?(ii) The actuality of words: Postmodern poetry(iii) The necessity of audience: the New Formalists(iv) Remapping the nation: Chicano/a and Latino/a poetry(v) Improvising America: Asian–American poetry(vi) New and ancient songs: the return of the Native American(vii) Legends of the Fall: American poetry and crisisEPILOGUE: WHAT IS AN AMERICAN?: THE PROBLEM OF LITERARY NATIONALITYIndex
- ISBN: 978-1-118-79534-7
- Editorial: Wiley–Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 544
- Fecha Publicación: 06/03/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés
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