Laugh Lines : Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry /

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"Humor in recent American poetry has been largely dismissed or ignored by scholars, due in part to a staid reverence for the lyric. Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political Critique in Late Twentieth-Century American Poetry argues that humor is not a superficial feature of a small subset, but i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Conners, Carrie (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Humorous poetry, American.
American wit and humor.
American poetry.
Poesie americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Humour americain > Histoire et critique.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
American wit and humor > History and criticism.
Humorous poetry, American > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • The good lie
  • The politics of hedonism in Marilyn Hacker's "Love, death, and the changing of the seasons"
  • Bursting at the seams
  • Exploding the confines of reification with creative constraints in Harryette Mullen's "Sleeping with the dictionary"
  • "But he aint never been seen!"
  • The protean Howard Hughes and overlapping capitalist narratives in Ed Dorn's "Gunslinger"
  • Russell Edson's bestiary
  • Humanists in a posthuman world
  • Coda: Connections and conclusions ; Notes
  • Works cited
  • Index.

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