Poetry Circuit - Live Reading 1900-1970

The Poetry Circuit examines the creative impact that public reading had on twentieth-century poetry. Peter Howarth shows how the post-war reading boom made new kinds of poetry, involving their audience and setting in the performance.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Introduction


• 1: The Modernist Reading


• 2: Projective and Receptive Verse


• 3: Langston Hughes Belongs to Everybody


• 4: The Impersonal Poet Reads in Person


• 5: Marianne Moore's Performances


• 6: Poets' Theatre


• 7: Confession, Protest, and Apocalypse


• Select Bibliography


• Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Peter Howarth teaches at Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of British Poetry in the Age of Modernism (2006), The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry (2011), and co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Sonnet (2012). A National Teaching Fellow, he is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books. He is currently an AHRC RDE Fellow researching the history and practice of festivals.

Zusammenfassung

The Poetry Circuit examines the creative impact that public reading had on twentieth-century poetry. Peter Howarth shows how the post-war reading boom made new kinds of poetry, involving their audience and setting in the performance.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Peter B. Howarth, Peter B. (Queen Mary Howarth
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 19.09.2024
• EAN: 9780192896940
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289694-0
• Seiten: 384
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, 20th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets