Future-founding poetry: topographies of beginnings from Whitman to the twenty-first century

Although issues of futurity have become more and more central to literary and cultural studies in recent years, especially in environmental criticism, no scholarly work has yet addressed the topic of beginnings in American poetry in sufficient scope or detail or with adequate theoretical background....

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1. Verfasser: Pöhlmann, Sascha 1978- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Rochester, New York Camden House 2015
Schriftenreihe:European studies in North American literature and culture
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Zusammenfassung:Although issues of futurity have become more and more central to literary and cultural studies in recent years, especially in environmental criticism, no scholarly work has yet addressed the topic of beginnings in American poetry in sufficient scope or detail or with adequate theoretical background. This book is a study of how beginnings are made in American poetry. It borrows Walt Whitman's term "future-founding" to establish a theory of poetic beginnings that asks how poetry relates to notions of the future and how it imagines, constructs, and influences this future in the present. Furthermore, it seeks to change the way literary scholars think about futurity with regard to American poetry: they most often conceive of it in terms of newness alone, yet a deeper theorization of beginningsmust open up new ways of understanding the complexities of this relation. With chapters on Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, Allen Ginsberg, and future-founding poetry after 9/11, this book explains how American poetry makes its beginnings, with what means and to which political and aesthetic ends, and how it addresses fundamental questions about the nature of futurity itself. Sascha Pöhlmann is Associate Professor of American Literary History at Lüdwig-Maximilians-University, Munich
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Introduction: On how to begin, and where -- Whitman: beginning American poetry -- Williams: beginning again -- Hughes: urgent beginnings -- Rukeyser: communal beginnings -- Ginsberg: defiant beginnings -- Future-founding poetry after 9/11 -- Conclusion: On where to end
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (416 Seiten)
ISBN:9781782046479
DOI:10.1017/9781782046479

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