Title The forms of youth : twentieth-century poetry and adolescence / Stephen Burt

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2007] ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) Contents Modernist poetics of adolescence -- From schools to subcultures: adolescence in modern British poetry -- Soldiers, babysitters, delinquents, and mutants: adolescence in midcentury American poetry -- Are you one of those girls? Feminist poetics of adolescence -- An excess of dreamy possibilities: Ireland and Australia -- Midair: adolescence in contemporary American poetry Summary "Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, and art forms." "The first comprehensive study of adolescence in twentieth-century poetry, The Forms of Youth recasts the history of how English-speaking cultures began to view this phase of life as a valuable state of consciousness, if not the very essence of a Western identity."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL In English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism Adolescence in literature. POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. Adolescence in literature American poetry English poetry Intellectual life Adolescentie. Jeugd. Gedichten. Engels. Amerikaans. Jugend -- Motiv -- Lyrik -- amerikanische. Jugend -- Motiv -- Lyrik -- englische. Lyrik -- amerikanische -- Motiv -- Jugend. Lyrik -- englische -- Motiv -- Jugend. Amerikanisch. Englisch. Motiv (Literatur) Jugend. Lyrik. Lyrik Jugend Motiv Engelsk poesi -- historia -- 1900-talet. Amerikansk poesi -- historia -- 1900-talet. Ungdomar i litteraturen. SUBJECT English-speaking countries -- Intellectual life -- 20th century Subject English-speaking countries USA Englisch. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2007003447 ISBN 9780231512022 0231512023

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