Author: Harold Bloom Publisher: ISBN: Category : American poetry Languages : en Pages : 404
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Critical essays on the works of some twenty-five poets, written after World War II. Includes poetry of Louise Bogan, Stanley Kunitz, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Sylvia Plath, and others.
Author: Harold Bloom Publisher: ISBN: 9781438182452 Category : Criticism Languages : en Pages :
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This title gathers criticism of notable American poets including Louise Bogan, Stanley Kunitz, Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, and Anne Sexton.
Author: Walter Kalaidjian Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107040361 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 309
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century.
Author: Carlin Romano Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0345804708 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 690
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This bold, insightful book argues that America today towers as the most philosophical culture in the history of the world, an unprecedented marketplace for truth and debate. With verve and keen intelligence, Carlin Romano—Pulitzer Prize finalist, award-winning book critic, and professor of philosophy—takes on the widely held belief that the United States is an anti-intellectual country. Instead he provides a richly reported overview of American thought, arguing that ordinary Americans see through phony philosophical justifications faster than anyone else, and that the best of our thinkers ditch artificial academic debates for fresh intellectual enterprises. Along the way, Romano seeks to topple philosophy’s most fiercely admired hero, Socrates, asserting that it is Isocrates, the nearly forgotten Greek philosopher who rejected certainty, whom Americans should honor as their intellectual ancestor. America the Philosophical is a rebellious tour de force that both celebrates our country’s unparalleled intellectual energy and promises to bury some of our most hidebound cultural clichés.
Author: Harold Bloom Publisher: New York : Chelsea House ISBN: Category : American poetry Languages : en Pages : 448
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A collection of 24 essays, several of them major in every sense of the word--e.g., Harold Bloom on Stevens, Paul Mariani on Williams, and Bonnie Costello on Moore. Also included are R.P. Blackmur's incisive treatment of Cummings and highly informed appreciation of Dunbar, Hughes, and Cullen. ISBN 0-87754-952-4: 39.95.
Author: Mathilde Köstler Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 311077271X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 546
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How does Cajun literature, emerging in the 1980s, represent the dynamic processes of remembering in Cajun culture? Known for its hybrid constitution and deeply ingrained oral traditions, Cajun culture provides an ideal testing ground for investigating the collective memory of a group. In particular, francophone and anglophone Cajun texts by such writers as Jean Arceneaux, Tim Gautreaux, Jeanne Castille, Zachary Richard, Ron Thibodeaux, Darrell Bourque, and Kirby Jambon reveal not only a shift from an oral to a written tradition. They also show hybrid perspectives on the Cajun collective memory. Based on recurring references to place, the texts also reflect on the (Acadian) past and reveal the innate ability of the Cajuns to adapt through repeated intertextual references. The Cajun collective memory is thus defined by a transnational outlook, a transversality cutting across various ethnic heritages to establish and legitimize a collective identity both amid the linguistic and cultural diversity in Louisiana, and in the face of American mainstream culture. Cajun Literature and Cajun Collective Memory represents the first analysis of the mnemonic strategies Cajun writers use to explore and sustain the Cajun identity and collective memory.
Author: Harold Bloom
Author: Harold Bloom
Author: James E. B. Breslin
Author: Walter Kalaidjian
Author: Carlin Romano
Author: Harold Bloom
Author: Harold Bloom
Author: Mathilde Köstler
Author: Harold Bloom
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