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ISBN-13: | 9780819565389 |
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Publisher: | Wesleyan University Press |
Publication date: | 06/01/2002 |
Pages: | 224 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.55(d) |
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Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsIntroduction – Poetry as Social FormPoetry and the Reading Public: Poetic Debates in the Popular Press, 1910-1940The Modernists as Liberal: Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Private InsurancePublicity, Sabotage, and Arturo Giovannitti's "Poetry of Syndicalism"Poetry as Crossing: The Newspaper Verse of Anise (Anna Louise Strong)Poetry and Its Publics in the 1990sNotesBibliographyIndexWhat People are Saying About This
"Poetry and the Public is a welcome addition to a growing but still small body of revisionist studies of 20th century poetics that employ some version of New Historicist and cultural studies methods to make new areas of poetic activity, beyond the received high modernist canon, available for critical scrutiny."—Alan Golding, author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry
"Poetry and the Public brings poetry and a historically informed American studies into productive dialogue to show that poetry has played as significant a role in shaping national identity and public culture as any other literary or textual art."—Maria Damon, author of The Dark End of the Street
""Poetry and the Public is a welcome addition to a growing but still small body of revisionist studies of 20th century poetics that employ some version of New Historicist and cultural studies methods to make new areas of poetic activity, beyond the received high modernist canon, available for critical scrutiny."—Alan Golding, author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry
"Poetry and the Public is a welcome addition to a growing but still small body of revisionist studies of 20th century poetics that employ some version of New Historicist and cultural studies methods to make new areas of poetic activity, beyond the received high modernist canon, available for critical scrutiny."
Alan Golding, author of From Outlaw to Classic: Canons in American Poetry
"Poetry and the Public brings poetry and a historically informed American studies into productive dialogue to show that poetry has played as significant a role in shaping national identity and public culture as any other literary or textual art."