New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Part of the series Cambridge companions to literature;Cambridge companions to literature.
Notes:
- The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by eighteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century, in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings, archival resources, and critical reception that define modern American poetry. The Companion stretches the narrow term of ‘literary modernism’ – which encompasses works published from approximately 1890 to 1945 – to include a more capacious and usable account of American poetry’s evolution from the twentieth century to the present. The essays collected here seek to account for modern American verse against the contexts of broad political, social, and cultural fields and forces. This volume gathers together major voices that represent the best in contemporary critical approaches and methods — Provided by publisher.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 1.The emergence of ‘the new poetry’ / John Timberman Newcomb — 2. Modern American archives and scrapbook modernism / Bartholomew Brinkman — 3. Experimental modernism / Alan Golding — 4. The legacy of New York / Cary Nelson — 5. The modern American long poem / Anne Day Dewey — 6. American modernism and the Harlem Renaissance / James Smethurst — 7. Objectivist poetry and poetics / Rachel Blau DuPlessis — 8. American poetry and the popular front / Alan Wald — 9. Tracking the fugitive poets / Kieran Quinlan — 10. Midcentury modernism / Stephen Burt — 11. Psychotherapy and confessional poetry / Michael Thurston — 12. Black mountain poetry / Kaplan Harris — 13. Beat poetry : HeavenHell USA, 1946-1965 / Maria Damon — 14. The Black Arts Movement and Black Aesthetics / Evie Shockley — 15. New York School and American surrealist poetics / Edward J. Brunner — 16. Land, place, and nation: toward an indigenous American poetics / Janet McAdams — 17. Transpacific and Asian American counterpoetics / Yunte Huang — 18. Language writing / Barrett Watten — 19. Poet-critics and bureaucratic administration / Evan Kindley.
Subjects:
- American poetry — 20th century — History and criticism.
- Literature and society — United States — History — 20th century.
- Modernism (Literature) — United States.
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