Crisis and the US avant-garde : poetry and real politics /

Charts the energies and tensions of avant-garde poetics and vanguard politics. Crisis and the US Avant-Garde examines the politics of poetry through the lens of crisis. A timely commentary on the role poetic culture might play in political struggle going forward into our own various contemporary cri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hickman, Ben, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
Temas:
1900-1999
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Politics and literature.
Experimental poetry.
Poésie américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Politique et littérature.
Poésie expérimentale.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
American poetry.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Crisis and the US Avant-Garde; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 'Longing for perfection': history and utopia in Louis Zukof; 2 'Atlantis buried outside': Muriel Rukeyser, myth and war; 3 Slipping the cog: Charles Olson and Cold War history; 4 Husky phlegm and spoken lonesomeness: poetry against the Vietnam; 5 'You can be the music yourself': Amiri Baraka's attitudes, 1974-80; 6 Figures of inward: Language poetry and the end of the avant-garde; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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