Title Lyric shame : the "lyric" subject of contemporary American poetry / Gillian White

Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2014 ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (350 pages) Contents You ought to be ashamed (but aren't): Elizabeth Bishop and the subject of lyric -- Something for someone: Anne Sexton, interpretation, and the shame of the confessional -- "Speaking in effect": identifying (with) Bernadette Mayer's shamed expressive practice -- Tired of myself: the 1990s & the 'lyric' shame poem -- afterword Summary Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by "lyric shame"--An unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. "Lyric" is less a specific genre than a way to project subjectivity onto poems--an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes In English Print version record Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc Emotions in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry. Emotions in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780674736313 0674736311

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