History, Memory, and the Literary Left : Modern American Poetry, 1935-1968 /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lowney, John, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Depressions > 1929 > United States.
Poets, American > 20th century > Political and social views.
Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Right and left (Political science) in literature.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The janitor's poems of every day: American poetry and the 1930's
  • Buried history: the popular front poetics of Muriel Rukeyser's The book of the dead
  • Allegories of salvage: the peripheral vision of Elizabeth Bishop's North & South
  • Harlem Disc-tortions: the jazz memory of Langston Hughes's Montage of a dream deferred
  • A reportage and Redemption: the poetics of African American countermemory in Gwendolyn Brook's In the Mecca
  • A metamorphic palimpsest: the underground memory of Thomas McGrath's Letter to an imaginary friend
  • The spectre of the 1930s: George Oppen's Of being numerous and historical amnesia.

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