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The forms of youth : twentieth-century poetry and adolescence /

"Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Burt, Stephanie, 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2007]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Modernist poetics of adolescence
  • From schools to subcultures: adolescence in modern British poetry
  • Soldiers, babysitters, delinquents, and mutants: adolescence in midcentury American poetry
  • Are you one of those girls? Feminist poetics of adolescence
  • An excess of dreamy possibilities: Ireland and Australia
  • Midair: adolescence in contemporary American poetry.