Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Informationen zum Autor Christopher Beach is Adjunct Assistant Professor at Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of several books in the field of American poetry and one book on American cinema. His most recent books are Poetic Culture: Contemporary American Poetry and Institution and Class, Language, and American Film Comedy. He is also the editor of Artifice and Indeterminacy: An Anthology of New Poetics. Klappentext This book gives readers a thorough introduction to the movements and schools of American poets in the twentieth century. Zusammenfassung The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements! schools! and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. A new century; 2. Modernist expatriates: Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot; 3. Lyric modernism: Wallace Stephens and Hart Crane; 4. Gendered modernism; 5. William Carlos Williams and the modernist American scene; 6. From the Harlem Renaissance to the Black Arts Movement; 7. The New Criticism and poetic formalism; 8. The Confessional Movement; 9. Lyric as meditation; 10. The New American Poetry and the postmodern avant-garde.

Product details

• Authors: Christopher Beach, Christopher (Claremont Graduate School Beach, Beach Christopher
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2003
• EAN: 9780521814690
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81469-0
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, American English, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets