Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry

Klappentext Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry is an inquiry into the cultural roles lyric poetry does and can play in our age. Zusammenfassung Self and Sensibility in Contemporary American Poetry is an inquiry into the cultural roles lyric poetry does and can play in our age. Charles Altieri first establishes a dominant mode in 'serious' American poetry by identifying current assumptions inherent in the teaching of creative writing and the awarding of prizes and contracts. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Self and sensibility in contemporary poetry; 2. The dominant poetic mode of the late seventies; 3. The pressure to transform; 4. The paradoxes of contemporary antiromanticism; 5. Robert Creeley's poetics of conjecture: the pains and pleasures of staging a self at war with its own lyric desires; 6. John Ashbery: discursive rhetoric within a poetics of thinking; 7. Self-reflection as action: the recent work of Adrienne Rich; 8. Epilogue: Criticism and contemporary poetry; Afterword.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Altieri
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor), Ross Posnock (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2009
• EAN: 9780521274135
• ISBN: 978-0-521-27413-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies