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American Literature (2007) 79 (3): 627–630.
Published: 01 September 2007
...Anne Raine Duke University Press 2007 The Feminist Avant-Garde in American Poetry . By Elisabeth A. Frost. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2003. xviii, 245 pp. Paper, $19.95. Lyric Interventions: Feminism, Experimental Poetry, and Contemporary Discourse . By Linda A. Kinnahan...
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American Literature (2007) 79 (4): 833–835.
Published: 01 December 2007
...Sean Metzger Duke University Press 2007 The Provincetown Players and the Culture of Modernity . By Brenda Murphy. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2005. xix, 282 pp. $85.00. Avant-Garde Performance and the Limits of Criticism: Approaching the Living Theatre, Happenings...
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American Literature (2010) 82 (1): 216–218.
Published: 01 March 2010
...Maria Damon © 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry since 1965 . By Timothy Yu. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Univ. Press. 2009. xi, 192 pp. $45.00. Poetic Obligation: Ethics in Experimental American Poetry after 1945...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 634–636.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Margaret Konkol Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 The Ecology of Modernism: American Environments and Avant-Garde Poetics . By Schuster Joshua . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2015 . xv, 216 pp. Paper , $39.95 ; e-book, $39.95 . Fallen Forests: Emotion...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (3): 660–662.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Joshua Logan Wall The Transmutation of Love and Avant-Garde Poetics . By Jeanne Heuving . Tuscaloosa : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2016 . xv, 240 pp. Paper, $34.95 ; e-book available. The Marriage Plot: Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature . By Naomi...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 845–848.
Published: 01 December 2015
...Aldon Nielsen Hart Crane's Poetry . By Irwin John T. . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2011 . xiv , 424 pp. Cloth, $65.00 ; paper, $34.95 . Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics . By Reed Brian M. . Ithaca, NY : Cornell Univ. Press...
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American Literature (2015) 87 (3): 618–622.
Published: 01 September 2015
... . The Zukofsky Era: Modernity, Margins, and the Avant-Garde . By Jennison Ruth . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Univ. Press . 2012 . x , 232 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; e-book, $60.00 . © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 618  American Literature deeply expansive chapters, ranging from close readings...
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American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 430–433.
Published: 01 June 2002
...- berg’s Jurassic Park. In the four chapters of their second section, they exam- ine in detail how British theater of the 1960s and 1970s, avant-garde poetry, science fiction, and novels of the city invented new ways of writing history. Middleton and Woods’s study is motivated by political and ethical...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 198–200.
Published: 01 March 2003
... to respond to the world in which they live. Joseph Kronick, Louisiana State University In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde. By William Watkin. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell Univ...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (1): 205–207.
Published: 01 March 2003
...-Garde Poetry since 1950. By Susan Van- derborg. Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press. 2001. xiv, 156 pp. $40.00. What are we to make of the essays and criticism of avant-garde poets such as Charles...
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American Literature (2004) 76 (1): 182–185.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Histories of Modernity. By Phillip E. Wegner. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 2002. xxvi, 297 pp. Cloth, $55.00; paper, $22.50. The Avant-Garde and American Postmodernity: Small Incisive Shocks. By Philip Nel. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi. 2002. xxv, 224 pp. $45.00...
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American Literature (2014) 86 (1): 191–193.
Published: 01 March 2014
...Amardeep Singh Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire . By Abravanel Genevieve . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . 206 pp. $65.00 . Transatlantic Avant-Gardes: Little Magazines and Localist Modernism . By White Eric B...
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American Literature (2018) 90 (3): 585–612.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Kristin Grogan Abstract This essay explores the relationship between Langston Hughes’s 1930s poetry and the Soviet avant-garde theater. It argues that the constructivist theater provides an aesthetic framework through which to read Hughes’s radical poetry. Often read as an artistic failure...
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American Literature (2009) 81 (4): 805–832.
Published: 01 December 2009
..., and theorized a new way forward for the avant-garde. This scene has been the subject of anthologies, academic studies, and now memoirs that present the history of Language poetry largely on its own terms. Kaplan's essay argues, however, that central positions associated with Language poetry first took shape...
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American Literature (2008) 80 (1): 83–109.
Published: 01 March 2008
... as productive, elevate entrepreneurship to an avant-garde activity, and consider modernist audiences a cultivated subset of a standardized mass market. The risk, resistance, and marginality that Stein and Beach believed distinguished their endeavors were derived from the rationales of U.S. capitalism, even...
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American Literature (2013) 85 (2): 389–398.
Published: 01 June 2013
... Univ. Press. 2010. vii, 220 pp. $93.00. Contextual Practice: Assemblage and the Erotic in Postwar Poetry and Art. By Stephen Fredman. Stanford, CA: Stanford Univ. Press. 2010. xii, 221 pp. $57.50. Cutting Performances: Collage Events, Feminist Artists, and the Ameri- can Avant-Garde. By James M...
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American Literature (2019) 91 (4): 905–907.
Published: 01 December 2019
... : Univ. of Alabama Press . 2015 . xiii, 298 pp. Paper, $49.95 ; e-book, $49.95 . Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 How broad or specific must a critical vantage be in order to address avant-garde or innovative work? The answer by both of these monographs is very . Herein, any...
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American Literature (2016) 88 (3): 648–650.
Published: 01 September 2016
... architecture for overheard emotion. Thanks to New Criticism, the lyric remained relatively visible in US literature, but the 1970s emergence of oppositional avant-garde, Language-centered poetries resulted in the lyric’s dismissal for being ahistorical, insularly self-indulgent, and politically detached...
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American Literature (2003) 75 (4): 885–887.
Published: 01 December 2003
.... Perloff relates these artists’ poetics to the work of contemporary avant-garde poets Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Lyn Hejinian, and Steve McCaffery. Chattarji’s book looks back to World War II to establish...
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American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 791–820.
Published: 01 December 2017
... with the essential purpose Baraka attributes to postwar avant-garde jazz, when he states, “New Black Music is this: find the self, then kill it” ( 1968b , 201). But as the figure of the dead lecturer attests, killing is never quite complete. The lyric form reappears throughout the collection, repeatedly...