American Poetry The Modernist Ideal

Author : Clive Bloom,Brian Docherty
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349240579

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American Poetry: The Modernist Ideal by Clive Bloom,Brian Docherty Pdf

Tracing its origins back to Walt Whitman, the Modernist tradition in American poetry is driven by the same concern to engage with the world in revolutionary terms, inspired by the concept of democracy vital to the American dream. But this tradition is not confined to a few writers at the beginning of the century: instead it has been an enduring force, extending from coast to coast and of varying hues: Imagist, Objectivist, Beat. International in flavour but shaped by the language and conditions of America, this poetry continues to speak to us today. This collection of specially commissioned essays brings together leading scholars and critics to define the American Modernist canon, providing a range of perspectives helpful to all those interested in this fascinating poetry.

Author : Charles Altieri
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405152273

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The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry by Charles Altieri Pdf

Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems. Encourages readers to identify with the modernists’ sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art. Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s. Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry. Includes close readings of particular poems which show how readers can use these works to connect with what concerns them.

Author : Cristina Giorcelli
Publisher : Ila-Palma
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029857047

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The Idea and the Thing in Modernist American Poetry by Cristina Giorcelli Pdf

Author : Jennifer Ashton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139448598

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From Modernism to Postmodernism by Jennifer Ashton Pdf

In this overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton examines the relationship between modernist and postmodernist American poetics. Ashton moves between the iconic figures of American modernism - Stein, Williams, Pound - and developments in contemporary American poetry to show how contemporary poetics, specially the school known as language poetry, have attempted to redefine the modernist legacy. She explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest that connect contemporary poets with their modernist forebears. The works of poets such as Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery are explained and analysed in detail. This major account of the key themes in twentieth-century poetry and poetics develops important ways to read both modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well as their differences. It will be of interest to all working in American literature, to modernists, and to scholars of twentieth-century poetry.

Author : Charles Altieri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521330858

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Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry by Charles Altieri Pdf

Charles Altieri's groundbreaking new book sets modernist American poetry in a precise cultural context by analyzing how major poets reacted to the challenge posed by modernist painting's radical critique of traditional representational models for art. It argues that modernist poets have tended to resist the received values of their contemporary culture by finding idealizing principles in modes of pure abstraction. It traces the use of such abstraction in literature from Wordsworth, through Baudelaire and Mallarmé, to T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, and Gertrude Stein. There are summary chapters also on Wallace Stevens and Ezra Pound, considerations of Cézanne and the Cubists, and a substantial theoretical discussion of the nature of abstract art.

Author : Robin G. Schulze
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199920327

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The Degenerate Muse by Robin G. Schulze Pdf

The early twentieth century marked a dramatic shift in the American conception of nature. This book analyzes the ways in which the scientific recasting of American nature as an antidote for degeneration influenced work of important modernist writers Harriet Monroe, Ezra Pound, and Marianne Moore.

Author : Cary Nelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1249 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0195122712

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Anthology of Modern American Poetry by Cary Nelson Pdf

Bringing together over 100 years of creative and vital American poetry in one volume, Anthology of Modern American Poetry includes over 750 poems by 161 American poets ranging from Walt Whitman to Sherman Alexie. It represents not only the traditionally familiar poetic works of the last hundred years but also includes numerous poems by women, minority, and progressive writers only rediscovered in the past two decades. It is also the first anthology to give full treatment to American long poems and poetic sequences.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401204880

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Modernism Revisited by Anonim Pdf

Offering essays from some of the leading academic writers and younger scholars in the field of American studies from both the United States and Europe, this volume constitutes a rich and varied reconsideration of Modernist American poetry. Its contributions fall into two general categories: new and original discussions of many of the principal figures of the movement (Frost, Pound, Eliot, Williams, Cummings and Stevens) and reflections on the phenomenon of Modernism within a broader cultural context (the influence of Haiku, parallels and connections with Surrealism, responses to the Modernist accomplishment by later American poets). Because of its mixture of European and American perspectives, Modernism Revisited will be of vital interest to students and scholars of American literature and Modernism in general and of twentieth-century comparative literature and art.

Author : Frank Lentricchia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521470048

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Modernist Quartet by Frank Lentricchia Pdf

This study of the four major American modernist poets--Frost, Stevens, Pound, Eliot--in various historical environments, presents their poems as stories of their attempts to sustain a life in noncommercial writing, in a culture that is only hospitable, for the most part, to commercial art.

Author : L. S. Dembo
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Conceptions of Reality in Modern American Poetry by L. S. Dembo Pdf

Author : Cary Nelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199921157

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry by Cary Nelson Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Offering a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse, the twenty-five original essays contained herein take up a wide array of topics: the influence of jazz on the Beats and beyond; European and surrealist influences on style; poetics of the disenfranchised; religion and the national epic; antiwar and dissent poetry; the AIDS epidemic; digital innovations; transnationalism; hip hop; and more. Alongside these topics, major interpretive perspectives such as Marxist, psychoanalytic, disability, queer, and ecocritcal are incorporated. Throughout, the names that have shaped American poetry in the period--Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Sterling Brown, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Posey, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Rae Armantrout, Larry Eigner, and others--serve as touchstones along the tour of the poetic landscape.

Author : Walter Kalaidjian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107040366

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry by Walter Kalaidjian Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century.

Author : Edward Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108496322

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Modernist Invention by Edward Allen Pdf

Modernist Invention attends to the parallel histories of media technology and modernist American poetry.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780791082379

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Modern American Poetry by Harold Bloom Pdf

The essays collected in this volume survey the major works of modern American poetry, from magnificent epics like Hart Crane's "The Bridge" and Wallace Stevens's "Auroras of Aurmn," to such central lyrics as Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and Maranne Moore's "Poetry." the complexity of modern American poetry has demanded appreciation and analysis of an especially high order, and the list of critics included here makes up a veritable all-star team of close readers, from Kenneth Burke to Helen Vendler, from Richard Poirier to David Bromwich.

Author : Mark Steven
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421423586

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Red Modernism by Mark Steven Pdf

How did modernist poetry respond—both thematically and technically—to communism? In Red Modernism, Mark Steven asserts that modernism was highly attuned—and aesthetically responsive—to the overall spirit of communism. He considers the maturation of American poetry as a longitudinal arc, one that roughly followed the rise of the USSR through the Russian Revolution and its subsequent descent into Stalinism, opening up a hitherto underexplored domain in the political history of avant-garde literature. In doing so, Steven amplifies the resonance among the universal idea of communism, the revolutionary socialist state, and the American modernist poem. Focusing on three of the most significant figures in modernist poetry—Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky—Steven provides a theoretical and historical introduction to modernism’s unique sense of communism while revealing how communist ideals and references were deeply embedded in modernist poetry. Moving between these poets and the work of T. S. Eliot, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, and many others, the book combines a detailed analysis of technical devices and poetic values with a rich political and economic context. Persuasively charting a history of the avant-garde modernist poem in relation to communism, beginning in the 1910s and reaching into the 1940s, Red Modernism is an audacious examination of the twinned history of politics and poetry.