Lyric Shame - The Lyric Subject of Contemporary American Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Gillian White is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan. Klappentext Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by ¿lyric shame¿¿an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. ¿Lyric¿ is less a specific genre than a way to project subjectivity onto poems¿an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere. Zusammenfassung Gillian White argues that the poetry wars among critics and practitioners are shaped by “lyric shame”—an unspoken but pervasive embarrassment over what poetry is, should be, and fails to be. “Lyric” is less a specific genre than a way to project subjectivity onto poems—an idealized poem that is nowhere and yet everywhere.

Product details

• Authors: White, Gillian White
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2014
• EAN: 9780674734395
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73439-5
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literature: history & criticism, Literary theory, Literary studies: poetry and poets