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Zusatztext Assembling thought-provoking essays that encompass a vast range of poetry and poetics, The Oxford Handbook succeeds admirably at offering readers some of the best current approaches to reading modern and contemporary American poetry ... It is hard to envision a volume that would better take account of the present state of criticism and scholarship of American poetry. Informationen zum Autor Cary Nelson is Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Klappentext The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Zusammenfassung The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry gives readers a cutting-edge introduction to the kaleidoscopic world of American poetry over the last century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors Part I 1. A Century of Innovation: American Poetry from 1900 to the Present Cary Nelson Part II 2. Social Texts and Poetic Texts: Poetry and Cultural Studies Rachel Blau DuPlessis 3. American Indian Poetry at the Dawn of Modernism Robert Dale Parker 4. "Jeweled Bindings": Modernist Women's Poetry and the Limits of Sentimentality Melissa Girard 5. Hired Men and Hired Women: Modern American Poetry and the Labor Problem John Marsh 6. Economics and Gender in Mina Loy, Lola Ridge, and Marianne Moore Linda A. Kinnahan 7. Poetry and Rhetoric: Modernism and Beyond Peter Nicholls 8. Cézanne's Ideal of "Realization": A Useful Analogy for the Spirit of Modernity in American Poetry Charles Altieri 9. Stepping Out, Sitting In: Modern Poetry's Counterpoint with Jazz and the Blues Edward Brunner 10. Out With the Crowd: Modern American Poets Speaking to Mass Culture Tim Newcomb 11. Exquisite Corpse: Surrealist Influence on the American Poetry Scene, 1920-1960 Susan Rosenbaum 12. Material Concerns: Incidental Poetry, Popular Culture, and Ordinary Readers in Modern America Mike Chasar 13. "With Ambush and Stratagem": American Poetry in the Age of Pure War Philip Metres 14. The Fight and the Fiddle in Twentieth-Century African American Poetry Karen Jackson Ford 15. Asian American Poetry Josephine Park 16. "The Pardon of Speech": The Psychoanalysis of Modern American Poetry Walter Kalaidjian 17. American Poetry, Prayer, and the News Jahan Ramazani 18. The Tranquilized Fifties: Forms of Dissent in Postwar American Poetry Michael Thurston 19. The End of the End of Poetic Ideology, 1960 Al Filreis 20. Fieldwork in New American Poetry: From Cosmology to Discourse Lytle Shaw 21. "Do our chains offend you?": The Poetry of American Political Prisoners Mark W. Van Wienen 22. Disability Poetics Michael Davidson 23. Green Reading: Modern and Contemporary American Poetry and Environmental Criticism Lynn Keller 24. Transnationalism and Diaspora in American Poetry Timothy Yu 25. "Internationally Known": The Black Arts Movement and U.S. Poetry in the Age of Hip Hop James Smethurst 26. Minding Machines / Machining Minds: Writing (at) the Human-Machine Interface Adalaide Morris Index ...
