Poetry, Politics, and Culture - Argument in the Work of Eliot, Pound, Stevens, and Williams

Informationen zum Autor Harold Kaplan Klappentext A salient feature of modern poetics is its connection with cultural history and politics. Among the great American poets of the twentieth century! Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams offer a significant contrast with T S Eliot and Ezra Pound. This work offers a comparative study of these representative and distinctively influential poets. Zusammenfassung A salient feature of modern poetics is its direct connection with cultural history and politics Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction and Argument; 1: Eliot and Pound: Dissociations of Sensibility and Power; 2: Dissociations, Natural and Supernatural; 3: “The Silhouette of Man”; 4: Purgatory and Apocalypse; 5: A Problem of Order; 6: The Old Sublime; 7: The Vortex of Art; 8: Esthetic Politics; 9: Prejudice and Abstraction; 2: Stevens and Williams: The Source of Poetry; 10: “A Confidence in the World”; 11: “A Malady of the Quotidian”; 12: The Necessary Angel of Reality; 13: The Imagination as Value; 14: The Dehumanization of Art; 15: “The City as a Man”; 16: “A Peculiar Majesty”; 17: The Sign and Presence of the Human; 3: Poetry and Politics; 18: Cultural and Humanist Poetics; 19: Poetry, Culture, and Politics

Product details

• Authors: Harold Kaplan, Kaplan Harold
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.12.2007
• EAN: 9781412807357
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-0735-7
• No. of pages: 307
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets