Architecture of Address

Informationen zum Autor Jake Adam York is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado. His criticism has appeared in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and his poems have appeared in Shenandoah , The Southern Review , Crab Orchard Review , and other periodicals. Klappentext This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the moment. Zusammenfassung This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the moment. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Whitman's Ferry: Platform of Culture Whitman and the Oratory of Early Nineteenth-Century America Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Architecture The Ferry as Monument 3. Crossing Over Brooklyn Ferry: Hart Crane's The Bridge as Monument The Constuctive Principle The Architecture of Anamnesis in The Bridge The Final Figure and the Life of Monument 4. Urban Revitalization: Robert Lowell's 'For the Union Dead' and the American Tradition of Monumental Rhetoric Coordinations The Cemeteries of Culture Enabling Tradition 5. After Lowell: Some Conclusions and Final Considerations

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jake Adam York, York, Jake Adam York, York Jake Adam
• Verlag: Routledge Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 20.01.2005
• EAN: 9780415970587
• ISBN: 978-0-415-97058-7
• Abmessung: 162 mm x 238 mm x 18 mm
• Serien: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory; Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism