Fictions of Form in American Poetry

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In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing the inaccuracies of such claims when app...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cushman, Stephen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Literary form.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Genres litteraires.
Poesie americaine > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
American poetry > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing the inaccuracies of such claims when applied to poetry, Stephen Cushman maintains that American poets tend to overvalue the formal aspects of their art and in turn overestimate the relationship between those formal aspects and various ideas of America. In this book Cushman examines poems and prose statements in which poets as di.
Notas:Cover; Contents.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (236 pages).
ISBN:9781400863525

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