Left of poetry: Depression America and the formation of modern poetics

"In this incisive study, Sarah Ehlers returns to the Depression-era United States in order to unsettle longstanding ideas about poetry and emerging approaches to poetics. By bringing to light a range of archival materials and theories about poetry that emerged on the 1930s left, Ehlers reimagin...

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Main Author: Ehlers, Sarah (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2019
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"In this incisive study, Sarah Ehlers returns to the Depression-era United States in order to unsettle longstanding ideas about poetry and emerging approaches to poetics. By bringing to light a range of archival materials and theories about poetry that emerged on the 1930s left, Ehlers reimagines the historical formation of modern poetics. Offering new and challenging readings of prominent figures such as Langston Hughes and Muriel Rukeyser, and uncovering the contributions of lesser-known writers such as Jacques Roumain, Genevieve Taggard, and Martha Millet, Ehlers illuminates an aesthetically and geographically diverse matrix of schools and movements"...
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:xiii, 291 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781469651279
9781469651286

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