Author: Homer Andrew WattPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Ideas and Forms in English and American Literature
Author: Homer Andrew WattPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages :
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Ideas and Forms in English and American Literature
Author: Homer A. WattIdeas and Forms in English and American Literature: Poetry
Author: Homer Andrew WattPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Fictions of Form in American Poetry
Author: Stephen CushmanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140086352X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
In the 1830s Alexis de Tocqueville prophesied that American writers would slight, even despise, form--that they would favor the sensational over rational order. He suggested that this attitude was linked to a distinct concept of democracy in America. Exposing the inaccuracies of such claims when applied to poetry, Stephen Cushman maintains that American poets tend to overvalue the formal aspects of their art and in turn overestimate the relationship between those formal aspects and various ideas of America. In this book Cushman examines poems and prose statements in which poets as diverse as Emily Dickinson and Ezra Pound describe their own poetic forms, and he investigates links and analogies between poets' notions of form and their notions of "Americanness.". The book begins with a brief discussion of Whitman, who said, "The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem." Cushman takes this to mean that American poetry has succeeded in making fictions about itself which persuade its readers that its uniqueness transcends merely geographical boundaries. He explores the truth of this statement by considering the Americanness of Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Elizabeth Bishop, and A. R. Ammons. He concludes that the uniqueness of American poetry lies not so much in its forms as in its formalism and in the various attitudes that formalism reveals. Originally published in 1993. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections
Author: Denise L. MontgomeryPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 081087721X
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Representing the largest expansion between editions, this updated volume of Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections is the standard location tool for full-length plays published in collections and anthologies in England and the United States throughout the 20th century and beyond. This new volume lists more than 3,500 new plays and 2,000 new authors, as well as birth and/or death information for hundreds of authors.
Ideas and Forms in English and American Literature: Drama and prose
Author: Homer Andrew WattPublisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 728
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The Forms of Youth
Author: Stephen BurtPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231141424
Category : Adolescence in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, and art forms." "The first comprehensive study of adolescence in twentieth-century poetry, The Forms of Youth recasts the history of how English-speaking cultures began to view this phase of life as a valuable state of consciousness, if not the very essence of a Western identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Ideas of Order in Contemporary American Poetry
Author: Diana von FinckPublisher: Königshausen & Neumann
ISBN: 9783826036521
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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The Stevens Indicator
Author: The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Hugh ChisholmPublisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
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