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Songs of ourselves : the uses of poetry in America /
"In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. As they did so, they invested poems--and the figure of the poet--with the beliefs, values, and emotions that they encountered in those setting...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
©2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. As they did so, they invested poems--and the figure of the poet--with the beliefs, values, and emotions that they encountered in those settings. Reciting a poem together with others joined the individual to the community in a special and memorable way. In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Joan Shelley Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry shaped readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words."--Publisher description, from dust jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 470 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-450) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674042964 0674042964 0674035127 9780674035126 |