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Title The Oxford handbook of modern and contemporary American poetry / edited by Cary Nelson
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 716 pages) : illustrations
Series Oxford handbooks
Oxford handbooks.
Contents A century of innovation : American poetry from 1900 to the present / Cary Nelson -- Social texts and poetic texts : poetry and cultural studies / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- American Indian poetry at the dawn of modernism / Robert Dale Parker -- "Jeweled bindings" : modernist women's poetry and the limits of sentimentality / Melissa Girard -- Hired men and hired women : modern American poetry and the labor problem / John Marsh -- Economics and gender in Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, and Marianne Moore / Linda A. Kinnahan -- Poetry and rhetoric : modernism and beyond / Peter Nicholls -- Cézanne's ideal of "realization" : a useful analogy for the spirit of modernity in American poetry / Charles Altieri -- Stepping out, sitting in : modern poetry's counterpoint with jazz and the blues / Edward Brunner -- Out with the crowd : modern American poets speaking to mass culture / John Timberman Newcomb -- Exquisite corpse : surrealist influence on the American poetry scene, 1920-1960 / Susan Rosenbaum -- Material concerns : incidental poetry, popular culture, and ordinary readers in modern America / Mike Chasar -- "With ambush and stratagem" : American poetry in the age of pure war / Philip Metres -- The fight and the fiddle in twentieth-century African American poetry / Karen Jackson Ford -- Asian American poetry / Josephine Park -- "The pardon of speech" : the psychoanalysis of modern American poetry / Walter Kalaidjian -- American poetry, prayer, and the news / Jahan Ramazani -- The tranquilized fifties : forms of dissent in postwar American poetry / Michael Thurston -- The end of the end of poetic ideology, 1960 / Al Filreis -- Fieldwork in new American poetry : from cosmology to discourse / Lytle Shaw -- "Do our chains offend you?" : the poetry of American political prisoners / Mark W. Van Wienen -- Disability poetics / Michael Davidson -- Green reading : modern and contemporary American poetry and environmental criticism / Lynn Keller -- Transnationalism and diaspora in American poetry / Timothy Yu -- "Internationally known" : the Black arts movement and U.S. poetry in the age of hip hop / James Smethurst -- Minding machines, machining minds : writing at the human-machine interface / Adalaide Morris
Summary The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Offering a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse the twenty-five original essays contained herein take up a wide array of topics: the influence of jazz on the Beats and beyond; European and surrealist influences on style; poetics of the disenfranchised; religion and the national epic; antiwar and dissent poetry; the AIDS epidemic; digital innovations; transnationalism; hip hop; and more. Alongside these topics, major interpretive perspectives such as Marxist, psychoanalytic, disability, queer, and ecocritcal are incorporated. Throughout, the names that have shaped American poetry in the period--Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Sterling Brown, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Posey, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout, Larry Eigner, and others--serve as touchstones along the tour of the poetic landscape. -- Publisher's website
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American poetry
Gedichten.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Handboeken (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Nelson, Cary.
ISBN 9780199940950
0199940959
Other Titles Modern and contemporary American poetry