Future-Founding Poetry - Topographies of Beginnings from Whitman to the Twenty-First Century

An investigation of how American poetry since Whitman makes its beginnings, with what means and to which political and aesthetic ends, and how it addresses fundamental questions about what the future is and how it may be affectednow.

List of contents

Introduction: On How to Begin, and Where
Whitman: Beginning American Poetry
Williams: Beginning Again
Hughes: Urgent Beginnings
Rukeyser: Communal Beginnings
Ginsberg: Defiant Beginnings
Future-Founding Poetry after 9/11
Conclusion: On Where to End
Works Cited
Notes
Index

About the author

Sascha Pöhlmann

Product details

• Authors: Sascha Pohlmann, Sascha Pöhlmann
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2015
• EAN: 9781571139511
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-951-1
• No. of pages: 424
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 236 mm x 36 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Series: European Studies in North Amer
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Amerika, Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General