Poetics of emergence : affect and history in postwar experimental poetry /

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"Experimental poetry responded to historical change in the decades after World War II with an attitude of such casual and reckless originality that its insights have often been overlooked. And yet, Benjamin Lee argues, to ignore the scenes of self and the historical occasions captured by experi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lee, Benjamin (Benjamin Frederick) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2020]
Series:Contemporary North American poetry series.
Subjects:
1900-1999
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Experimental poetry, American > History and criticism.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
Radicalism in literature.
Social change in literature.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Poésie américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Poésie expérimentale américaine > Histoire et critique.
Radicalisme dans la littérature.
Changement social dans la littérature.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Affect (Psychology) in literature
American poetry
Experimental poetry, American
Literature and society
Radicalism in literature
Social change in literature
United States
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Affect and History and in Postwar Experimental Poetry
  • Chapter 1. Frank O'Hara's Twentieth Century
  • Chapter 2. LeRoi Jones, Editor: Kulchur Magazine and the Poetry of Cultural Politics
  • Chapter 3. Di Prima's Hipsters: Experimental Poetry at the Birth of the Cool
  • Chapter 4. Howl and Other Poems: Is There Old Left in These New Beats?
  • Epilogue: Meditations in an Emergency, Catastrophes of the Present.

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