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1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
History's "Black page": Genocide and modern American verse -- The Holocaust at home -- Harlem dancers and the middle passage -- Specters of commitment in modern American literary studies -- The enigma of witness: Domestic trauma on and off the couch -- Epiloge: reading Abu Ghraib |
| Summary |
In The Edge of Modernism, Walter Kalaidjian explores American poetry on genocide, the Holocaust, and total war as well as on postwar social antagonisms, racial oppression, and domestic violence. By asking what it means for traumatic memory to have agency in the American verse tradition, Kalaidjian creates an original historical account of how American poets became witnesses, often unconsciously, to modern extremity. Combining psychoanalytic theory and cultural studies, this intense, sweeping account of modern poetics analyzes the ways in which literary form gives testimony to the trauma of twentieth-century history. Through close readings of well-known and less familiar poets--among them Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Edwin Rolfe, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Peter Balakian, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Anne Sexton, and Anthony Hecht--Kalaidjian discerns the latent "edge" of modern trauma as it cuts through the literary representations, themes, and formal techniques of twentieth-century American poetics. In this way, The Edge of Modernism advances an innovative and dynamic model of modern periodization |
| Analysis |
Literary studies: poetry & poets |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-229) 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 |
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English |
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Literature and history -- United States -- History -- 20th century
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature.
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Anti-communist movements in literature.
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States
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Genocide in literature.
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Cold War in literature.
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History in literature.
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Slavery in literature.
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American poetry
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Anti-communist movements in literature
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Cold War (1945-1989) in literature
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Genocide in literature
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History in literature
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) in literature
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Literature and history
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Modernism (Literature)
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Slavery in literature
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Trauma's (psychologie)
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Terreur.
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Onderdrukking.
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Coping.
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Engagement.
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Gedichten.
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Amerikaans.
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United States
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005006243 |
| ISBN |
9781421427744 |
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1421427745 |
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142142939X |
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9781421429397 |
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