Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry /

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The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky argues that this gloomy d...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pinsky, Robert
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2002.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Democratie.
Gedichten.
Poetry.
Intellectual life.
Democracy in literature.
Culture in literature.
American poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
poetry.
Poesie.
Culture dans la litterature.
Poesie americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Poetry as Topic
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
United States.
États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle > 20e siecle.
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments; I: Culture; II: Vocality; III: Self-Consciousness; IV: Performance; V: Social Presence; VI: Readers; VII: The Narcissistic and the Personal; VIII: Models of Culture; IX: Conclusion; Index of Names.

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