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This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics. Laura Riding's Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Riding, Laura, 1901-1991
Other Authors: Malcolm, Jane (Editor), Heffernan, Laura (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poetry.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
poetry.
Poesie.
Poetry as Topic
Poetry
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics. Laura Riding's Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position of the outsider. For readers today, it offers a compelling account-by turns personal, by turns historical-of how the institutionalization of modernism denuded experimental poetry. Most importantly, Contemporaries and Snobs offers a counter-history of the idiosyncratic, of.
Item Description:Originally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Doran, 1928.
Physical Description:1 online resource (155 pages).
ISBN:9780817387372

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