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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Conners, Carrie (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2022]
Sujets:
1900-1999
Humorous poetry, American > History and criticism.
American wit and humor > History and criticism.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Humour américain > Histoire et critique.
Poésie américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Poésie humoristique américaine > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
American poetry
American wit and humor
Humorous poetry, American
Literature: history & criticism.
Humour.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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