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Changing subjects : digressions in modern American poetry /

'Changing Subjects' contends that major American poets-such as Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Lyn Hejinian-transformed verse and even changed conceptions of modern subjectivity by exploiting an ordinary rhetorical device ubiquitous in spoken language: the digression.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Reddy, Srikanth, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2012]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • "It must change" : the art of digression in twentieth-century American poetry
  • "To explain grace requires a curious hand" : Marianne Moore's interdisciplinary digressions
  • Changing the szujet : Lyn Hejinian's digressive narratology and the writing of history
  • Digression personified : Whitman, the New York School, and the drift of poetry
  • New digressions : John Ashbery and the changing subjects of the twenty-first century.