Politics and Form in Postmodern Poetry

Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while traditional forms are politically conservative.

List of contents

1. Introduction: poetry after Modernism; 2. Frank O'Hara: 'How Am I to Become a Legend?'; 3. Elizabeth Bishop: 'Repeat, Repeat, Repeat; Revise, Revise, Revise'; 4. John Ashbery: 'The Epidemic of the Way We Live Now'; 5. James Merrill: 'Sour Windfalls of the Orchard Back of Us'.

Summary

Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while traditional forms are politically conservative.

Product details

• Authors: Konuk Mutlu Blasing, Mutlu Konuk Blasing
• Assisted by: Albert Gelpi (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2015
• EAN: 9780521496070
• ISBN: 978-0-521-49607-0
• No. of pages: 236
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies