The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (Oxford Handbooks) ISBN-13: 9780190204150

ISBN-13: 9780190204150

Binding: Paperback

Author: Nelson, Cary

Details: 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. Offering a comprehensive approach to the debates that have defined the study of American verse, the twenty-five original essays contained herein take up a wide array of topics: the influence of jazz on the Beats and beyond; European and surrealist influences on style; poetics of the disenfranchised; religion and the national epic; antiwar and dissent poetry; the AIDS epidemic; digital innovations; transnationalism; hip hop; and more. Alongside these topics, major interpretive perspectives such as Marxist, psychoanalytic, disability, queer, and ecocritcal are incorporated. Throughout, the names that have shaped American poetry in the period–Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, Mina Loy, Sterling Brown, Hart Crane, William Carlos Williams, Posey, Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Rae
Armantrout, Larry Eigner, and others–serve as touchstones along the tour of the poetic landscape.

Release Date: 01-12-2014

Package Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.7 x 1.8 inches

Languages: English

Part Number: 20 illus.

Edition: 1

Number Of Pages: 734