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...Lukas Moe Genre, Vol. 53, No. 3 December 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8847175 © 2020 by University of Oklahoma Review Essay What Was American Verse Culture? lukas moe Evan Kindley, Poet- Critics and the Administration of Culture, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Sarah Ehlers, Left...

... expectations based on traditional poetic genres and explores its interpretative and ethical implications. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by University of Oklahoma 2024 witness testimony genre verse poetry In December 2001, the Swedish Academy organized...

...Kenneth J. E. Graham [email protected] Tessie Prakas , Poetic Priesthood in the Seventeenth Century: Reformed Ministry and Radical Verse , New York : Oxford University Press , 2022 . Copyright © 2024 by University of Oklahoma 2024 Tessie Prakas's book is the latest...

... .” An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature . Ed. Cheung King-Kok . New York : Cambridge UP , 1997 . 39 - 61 . Zhao Xiaojian . Remaking Chinese America: Immigration, Family, and Community, 1940-1965 . New Brunswick : Rutgers UP , 2002 . CHINATOWN VERNACULAR VERSES...

... is as important a model as hymns for Dickinson's short-lined verse undercuts interpretation of her chosen forms as either inherently rebellious against orthodoxies or devoutly meditative. Instead, Dickinson participated actively in secular as well as religious nineteenth-century popular verse culture. Attention...

..., and verse memorizing, an alternate history of realist character emerges: the lifelikeness of automation. Victorian novel fictional character domestic realism cybernetics realism The Cybernetic Character of Domestic Realism megan ward Two of the phenomena which we consider...

... to them is limited— Numbers is a remarkable visual-verbal collaboration. Not only is it a beautiful, sumptuously colored book, it is a deeply affective exploration in both verse and print of what might otherwise seem the most routine or mundane of figures. Throughout the collaboration Creeley and Indiana...

..., verses 3-5). The indignity continues as "We are given shots and doctors ask questions. / Then we gather in another room / Where the counselors orient us to the new land" (12, verses 6-8). However, the development of the poetic discourse weaves a tapestry both of hope and of frustration...

... these terms varies depending on context: “Just as we say that a certain temperature is hot and another cold. In the same way we say that a certain prose passage ‘Is poetry’ meaning to praise it, and that a certain passage of verse is ‘only prose’ meaning dispraise. And at the same time ‘Poetry!!!’ is used...

... by their institutional reception. In these respects, Glaser's book both extends and complicates the claims made by a broad cross section of literary scholars over the last fifteen years. For Glaser, as for the historical poetics group, recovering the microhistories of US verse genres and prosodic elements helps us...

..., make such thought possible” (189). In describing these radical implications of Traherne's verse (as elsewhere in the book), Harrison wears his erudition lightly—a particular asset in reading a poet whose tone is itself often characterized in terms of lightness and delight. If chapter 1 makes Adam...

...-the-top emphasis [in Keats] on the pageant of the physical body is in truth a highly pressurized blankness, an attempt to evacuate that body and thereby protect it from expropriation” (250). This is not to deny the sensuality of the verse, but to notice how that sensuality is “present only...

... in other contexts. Since they could no longer be "tuned out," the Psalms must have added their undertones to the emotional impact of every service. Three psalms are pervasively imprecatory—58, 83, and 109. Psalm 58, for example, exults "he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked" (verse...

..., which serves in his verse as a persistent nonverbal analogy for the inarticulateness of traumatic history. His poems about trauma experienced both as an African American growing up in the South and as a U.S. soldier in Vietnam represent a poetics of trauma based in two of the most compelling...

..., Heather White, and Amy Morris for their judicious comments on earlier drafts of this essay. Genre, Vol. 45, No. 1 Spring 2012 DOI 10.1215/00166928- 1507056 © 2012 by University of Oklahoma 122 GENRE power of verse resides precisely in its bringing back into range...

... .” Essays on Pope . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1993 . 129 - 67 . Roscommon Wentworth Dillon , Earl of. “An Essay on Translated Verse.” 1684 . Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, 1650-1685 . Ed. Spingarn J.E. . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1908 . 16 - 27 . Ross Trevor...

... they clearly became a burden and a bugbear. Lucretius turned to the teachings of Epicurus as an entirely "doable" verse project, and so too did Virgil to Italian farming methods. But, as the store of knowledge increased, and, with that, the "manualization" of more ambitious and wide-ranging topics, so...

... have been bitten, bite back. That most infamous of satiric novels, Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses (1988) — written in and mostly about London in the 1980s but more notori- ously taking a satiric brush to Islamic history and matters of faith — demonstrated satire’s power to provoke violence...

... Press , 2005 . Bourdieu Pierre . The Field of Cultural Production . New York : Columbia University Press , 1993 . Burgess Gelett . `` Yone Noguchi's Verse .'' San Francisco Examiner 29 Nov. 1896 , 35 . Carr Helen . `` Imagism and Empire ,'' in Modernism...

... against the tradition of representation, Moore in the thirties harnesses the force of that tradition to critique itself. When Moore returns to poetry in 1932, after a seven- year hiatus in which she was writing prose and editing the Dial, her first new word, in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse...