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Reading the Middle Generation Anew

Author : Eric Haralson
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587296675
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Middle Generation Anew written by Eric Haralson and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten original essays by advanced scholars and well-published poets address the middle generation of American poets, including the familiar---Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and John Berryman---and various important contemporaries: Delmore Schwartz, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, and Lorine Niedecker. This was a famously troubled cohort of writers, for reasons both personal and cultural, and collectively their poems give us powerful, moving insights into American social life in the transforming decades of the 1940s through the 1960s.In addition to having worked during the broad middle of the last century, these poets constitute the center of twentieth-century American poetry in the larger sense, refuting invidious connotations of “middle” as coming after the great moderns and being superseded by a proliferating postmodern experimentation. This middle generation mediates the so-called American century and its prodigious body of poetry, even as it complicates historical and aesthetic categorizations.Taking diverse formal and thematic angles on these poets---biographical-historical, deconstructionist, and more formalist accounts---this book re-examines their between-ness and ambivalence: their various positionings and repositionings in aesthetic, political, and personal matters. The essays study the interplay between these writers and such shifting formations as religious discourse, consumerism, militarism and war, the ideology of America as “nature's nation,” and U.S. race relations and ethnic conflicts. Reading the Middle Generation Anew also shows the legacy of the middle generation, the ways in which their lives and writings continue to be a shaping force in American poetry. This fresh and invigorating collection will be of great interest to literary scholars and poets.

Inventing the Language to Tell It

Author : George Hart
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823254895
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Inventing the Language to Tell It written by George Hart and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines American poet Robinson Jeffers's concern with the evolution of consciousness and its effects on humans' relationship with the natural world. Presents an account of his development of a poetics that integrates scientific and spiritual views of the universe.

Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century

Author : Cheri Colby Langdell
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031131576
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century written by Cheri Colby Langdell and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning Merwin’s early career, his mid-career success, his Hawaiian epic, his eco-poetry, his lesser-known later poetry and the influence of Buddhism on his work, the volume offers new perspectives on Merwin as a major poet. Exploring his works across the twentieth and twenty-first century, this collection presents Merwin as a necessary and contemporary poet. It emphasizes contemporary readings of Merwin as an environmental advocate, showing how his poetry seeks to help each reader re-establish an intimate relationship with the natural world. It also highlights how Merwin’s work presents our place in history as a pivotal moment of transition into a new era of international cooperation. This volume both celebrates his life and writing and takes scholarship on his work forward into the new century.

The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature

Author : Julia Mickenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199938555
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Children's Literature written by Julia Mickenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remarkably well researched, the essays consider a wide range of texts - from the U.S., Britain and Canada - and take a variety fo theoretical approaches, including formalism and Marxism and those related to psychology, postcolonialism, reception, feminism, queer studies, and performance studies ... This collection pushes boundaries of genre, notions of childhood ... Choice. Back cover of book.

Reading Elizabeth Bishop

Author : Ellis Jonathan Ellis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474421350
Total Pages : 569 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Reading Elizabeth Bishop written by Ellis Jonathan Ellis and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and original guide to Elizabeth Bishop's poetry and other writing, including literary criticism and prose fictionCelebrating Elizabeth Bishop as an international writer with allegiances to various countries and national traditions, this collection of essays explores how Bishop moves between literal geographies like Nova Scotia, New England, Key West and Brazil and more philosophical categories like home and elsewhere, human and animal, insider and outsider. The book covers all aspects and periods of the author's career, from her early writing in the 1930s to the late poems finished after Geography III and those works published after her death. It also examines how Bishop's work has been read and reinterpreted by contemporary writers. Key FeaturesProvides a companion to Bishop's entire artistic oeuvre, including letter writing, literary criticism and short story writingOffers a sustained consideration of Bishop's identity politics, including the role of raceStudies Bishop's influence on contemporary culture

Of Women Borne

Author : Cynthia R. Wallace
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231541201
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Of Women Borne written by Cynthia R. Wallace and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literature of Adrienne Rich, Toni Morrison, Ana Castillo, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie teaches a risky, self-giving way of reading (and being) that brings home the dangers and the possibilities of suffering as an ethical good. Working the thought of feminist theologians and philosophers into an analysis of these women's writings, Cynthia R. Wallace crafts a literary ethics attentive to the paradoxes of critique and re-vision, universality and particularity, and reads in suffering a redemptive or redeemable reality. Wallace's approach recognizes the generative interplay between ethical form and content in literature, which helps isolate more distinctly the gendered and religious echoes of suffering and sacrifice in Western culture. By refracting these resonances through the work of feminists and theologians of color, her book also shows the value of broad-ranging ethical explorations into literature, with their power to redefine theories of reading and the nature of our responsibility to art and each other.

Midcentury Suspension

Author : Claire Seiler
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550944
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Midcentury Suspension written by Claire Seiler and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did literary artists confront the middle of a century already defined by two global wars and newly faced with a nuclear future? Midcentury Suspension argues that a sense of suspension—a feeling of being between beginnings and endings, recent horrors and opaque horizons—shaped transatlantic literary forms and cultural expression in this singular moment. Rooted in extensive archival research in literary, print, and public cultures of the Anglophone North Atlantic, Claire Seiler’s account of midcentury suspension ranges across key works of the late 1940s and early 1950s by authors such as W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Bowen, Ralph Ellison, and Frank O’Hara. Seiler reveals how these writers cultivated modes of suspension that spoke to the felt texture of life at midcentury. Running counter to the tendency to frame midcentury literature in the terms of modernism or of our contemporary, Midcentury Suspension reorients twentieth-century literary study around the epoch’s fraught middle.

Anne Sexton and Middle Generation Poetry

Author : Philip McGowan
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Anne Sexton and Middle Generation Poetry written by Philip McGowan and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2004-09-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluating the poetry of Anne Sexton 30 years after her death, this text examines the possibilities of language to convey an individual's response to their own existence, the project of defining love and the purpose of the aesthetic in our understanding of these entities.

The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2

Author : Gene Andrew Jarrett
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118559509
Total Pages : 1125 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature, Volume 2 written by Gene Andrew Jarrett and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 1125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wiley Blackwell Anthology of African American Literature is a comprehensive collection of poems, short stories, novellas, novels, plays, autobiographies, and essays authored by African Americans from the eighteenth century until the present. Evenly divided into two volumes, it is also the first such anthology to be conceived and published for both classroom and online education in the new millennium. Reflects the current scholarly and pedagogic structure of African American literary studies Selects literary texts according to extensive research on classroom adoptions, scholarship, and the expert opinions of leading professors Organizes literary texts according to more appropriate periods of literary history, dividing them into seven sections that accurately depict intellectual, cultural, and political movements Includes more reprints of entire works and longer selections of major works than any other anthology of its kind This second volume contains a comprehensive collection of texts authored by African Americans from the 1920s to the present The two volumes of this landmark anthology can also be bought as a set, at over 20% savings.

Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets

Author : Kwame Alexander
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536221694
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book Out of Wonder: Poems Celebrating Poets written by Kwame Alexander and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-01-26 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Newbery Medalist and a Caldecott Honoree offer a glorious, lyrical ode to poets who have sparked a sense of wonder. Out of gratitude for the poet’s art form, Newbery Award–winning author and poet Kwame Alexander, along with Chris Colderley and Marjory Wentworth, present original poems that pay homage to twenty famed poets who have made the authors’ hearts sing and their minds wonder. Stunning mixed-media images by Ekua Holmes, winner of a Caldecott Honor and a John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award, complete the celebration and invite the reader to listen, wonder, and perhaps even pick up a pen.

New England Beyond Criticism

Author : Elisa New
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118854551
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)

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Download or read book New England Beyond Criticism written by Elisa New and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New England to the American literary canon, and its impact on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America. An exploration and defense of the prominence of New England’s literary tradition within the canon of American literature Traces the impact of the literature of New England on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America Includes in-depth studies of work from authors and poets such as William Bradford, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, Susan Howe, and Marilynne Robinson Examines the place and impression of New England literature in the nation’s intellectual history and the lives of its readers

The Necessary Past

Author : Annette Debo
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810146894
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Necessary Past written by Annette Debo and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future “Poets are lyric historians,” proclaimed Langston Hughes. Today, historical poetry offers a lyric history necessary to our current moment—poetry with the power to correct the past, realign the present, and create a more hopeful, or even hoped-for, future. The Necessary Past: Revising History in Contemporary African American Poetry focuses on six of today’s most celebrated poets: Elizabeth Alexander, Natasha Trethewey, A. Van Jordan, Kevin Young, Frank X Walker, and Camille T. Dungy. Their works reimagine the interiority of Black historical figures like the so-called Venus Hottentot Sara Baartman and the would-be spelling champion MacNolia Cox, the African American Native Guard who fought in the Civil War and the unknown victims of domestic violence, Jack Johnson and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Medgar Evers and those freed and enslaved in the early nineteenth century. These poets shift the power dynamic in revising our shared history, reconfiguring who speaks and whose stories are told, and writing a past that frees readers to change the present and envision a more just future.

"After thirty Falls"

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401204527
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book "After thirty Falls" written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prefaced by an account of the early days of Berryman studies by bibliographer and scholar Richard J. Kelly, “After thirty Falls” is the first collection of essays to be published on the American poet John Berryman (1914-1972) in over a decade. The book seeks to provoke new interest in this important figure with a group of original essays and appraisals by scholars from Ireland, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and the United States. Exploring such areas as the poet’s engagements with Shakespeare and the American sonnet tradition, his use of the Trickster figure and the idea of performance in his poetics, it expands the interpretive framework by which Berryman may be evaluated and studied, and it will be of interest to students of modern American poetry at all levels. What makes the collection particularly valuable is its inclusion of previously unpublished material – including a translation of a poem by Catullus and excerpts from the poet’s detailed notes on the life of Christ – thereby providing new contexts for future assessments of Berryman’s contribution to the development of poetry, poetics, and the relationship between scholarship and other forms of writing in the twentieth century.

Private Fire

Author : Matthew James Babcock
Publisher : University of Delaware
ISBN 13 : 1611490235
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Private Fire written by Matthew James Babcock and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew J. Babcock's Private Fire: Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose is an examination of the life and work of one of America's most intriguing but tragically obscure writers. Babcock uses his own personal relationship Robert Francis's work, which emphasizes conservation and connectedness to our natural surroundings, to illuminate both overtones and nuances that are undoubtedly useful to those interested in poetry and ecology. Babcock begins with a brief biographical section intended to set the tone for readers previously unfamiliar with Robert Francis and then continues into an analysis of the influence of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost on Francis's work. Starting in Chapter Three, Private Fire shifts into the realm of literary analysis and discusses various angles of Francis's work, from representations of gender and sexual identity; prose contributions, both fiction and non-fiction; religion and politics; to themes of conservation, place-making, experimental poetic styles, and asceticism, finishing with a discussion of Francis's only long narrative poem, 'Valhalla.' This poem joins other prophetic works in musing upon environmental apocalypticism. Matthew J. Babcock finishes this detailed and thoughtful volume with concluding meditations that situate Robert Francis with his contemporaries, helping readers to locate him historically and contextually amongst other 20th century writers. By using biography and literary theory as the lens through which one interprets Francis's work, Private Fire: Robert Francis's Ecopoetry and Prose successfully navigates the literary and cultural environment surrounding a poet who himself was so connected with the world around him.

The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms

Author : Roland Greene
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400880645
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms written by Roland Greene and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essential handbook for literary studies The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms—drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics—provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the study of poetry and literature. Featuring 226 fully revised and updated entries, including 100 that are new to this edition, the book offers clear and insightful definitions and discussions of critical concepts, genres, forms, movements, and poetic elements, followed by invaluable, up-to-date bibliographies that guide users to further reading and research. Because the entries are carefully selected and adapted from the Princeton Encyclopedia, the Handbook has unrivalled breadth and depth for a book of its kind, in a convenient, portable size. Fully indexed for the first time and complete with an introduction by the editors, this is an essential volume for all literature students, teachers, and researchers, as well as other readers and writers. Drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Provides 226 fully updated and authoritative entries, including 100 new to this edition, written by an international team of leading scholars Features entries on critical concepts (canon, mimesis, prosody, syntax); genres, forms, and movements (ballad, blank verse, confessional poetry, ode); and terms (apostrophe, hypotaxis and parataxis, meter, tone) Includes an introduction, bibliographies, cross-references, and a full index

Writing Plural Worlds in Contemporary U.S. Poetry

Author : J. Keller
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023062376X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Writing Plural Worlds in Contemporary U.S. Poetry written by J. Keller and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-03 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reveals how poets within the U.S. multi-ethnic avant-garde give up the goal of narrating one comprehensive, rooted view of cultural reality in favour of constructing coherent accounts of relational, local selves and worlds.

Delmore Schwartz

Author : A. Runchman
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137394382
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Delmore Schwartz written by A. Runchman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-07 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking as its starting point Delmore Schwartz's self-appointment as both a 'poet of the Hudson River' and 'laureate of the Atlantic,' this book comprehensively reassesses the poetic achievement of a critically neglected writer. Runchman reads Schwartz's poetry in relation to its national and international perspectives.