Search Results for postwar American poetry

...Eric Falci Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry , by Keniston Ann . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2015 . 228 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2017 In Ghostly Figures: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry , Ann Keniston...

... Lorrie . 1992 . Elizabeth Bishop: The Biography of a Poetry . New York : Columbia University Press . Gray Jeffrey . 2005 . Mastery’s End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry . Athens : University of Georgia Press . Hicok Bethany . 2012 . “ Bishop’s Brazilian Politics...

...Terence Diggory Selected Poems , by O’Hara Frank , New edition . Edited by Ford Mark . New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2008 . 265 pages. Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry , by Epstein Andrew , New York : Oxford University Press , 2006 . 359...

...: Memory and Belatedness in Postwar American Poetry (2015), poets such as Adrienne Rich, Mark Doty, James Merrill, and Jorie Graham remain inescapably the pale epigoni of T. S. Eliot or Wallace Stevens; or, in Jeremy Green’s Late Postmodernism: American Fiction at the Millennium (2005), novelists...

... Bernstein, Buck Downs, and countless other gifted postwar poets. Although the use of the fragment as a literary Twentieth-Century Literature 51.2 Summer 2005 249 Richard Deming device has a long history, in American modernist and postwar poetry it is often definitively characteristic. Often...

... American poetry. Laurel Snow Corelle’s A Poet’s High Argument: Elizabeth Bishop and Christianity shares an intriguing similarity with Pickard’s book. Like Pickard, Corelle takes on a topic that Bishop’s readers thought they knew thoroughly and reveals it to be a much richer and deeper subject...

... © 2024 Hofstra University 2024 African American poetry postwar American poetry race and international politics Over the last two decades, critics have become increasingly attuned to the global, transnational dimensions of Langston Hughes’s work, commenting substantively...

... of the polis in The Human Condition (1998), it being the function of the polis to enable the quality of communication that an emphasis on idiosyncrasy entails. For a full consideration of postwar American poetry’s emphasis on the “idiosyncratic,” see Carbery 2015 . 8 “Feeling and Precision” has been...

...” they are interested in having a book about post-World War II American poetry elucidate (biographical, historical, formal, textual, etc it is to Fredman’s credit that he doesn’t gesture toward all the literary critical possibilities. Instead, he immediately situates the reader inside the vibrant practices...

... modus operandi . © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 ballad lyric voice media poetics sound The study of postwar poetry has arrived at a crisis of categorization. Much of this recent debate about poetic categories has occurred within the American academy and concerns itself...

... but also to the remarkable trend toward self-consciously “big” writing in postwar American poetry, a trend Paterson dramatically embodied. In two high-profde group reviews, comparison of Bishop and Wil­ liams resulted in hierarchal assessments of the poets’ respective importance...

... by Amy Hungerford Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 224 pages Steven Belletto Amy Hungerford’s Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960 mounts an ambitious and important intervention into the study of postwar American literature and culture. Hungerford...

... of Modernist Poets.” Ed. Aldon Lynn Nielsen. Reading Race in American Poetry: “An Area of Act.” Urbana: U of Illinois P, 2000. 43-83. 513 Peter Stoneley Dyer, Richard. White. New York: Routledge, 1997. Epstein, Andrew. Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry. New...

...—authoritarianism, white nationalism, recession, and so on—are very much with us still. By making some sense of the midcentury’s suspended feelings, Seiler makes some sense of ours too. Works Cited Esteve Mary . 2021 . Incremental Realism: Postwar American Fiction, Happiness, and Welfare-State...

... to consider living poets, expanding the book’s range into the twenty- first century. Selecting one poet from either side of the pond, Bryant ex- plores poetry by the current (and first female) British Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, and the American writer known as “Ai.” The subject of the chapter...

... existentialism New Criticism Evaluating the institutional stakes of O’Connor’s story involves considering the history of the deepening rift between American academic philosophy and the philosophical ideas that enjoyed cultural capital among postwar writers and intellectuals. While I later argue...

... American literature, US literary radicalism, and Marxist literary criticism. Her most recent book is Marxist Literary Criticism Today (2019). She is past president of the Radical Caucus of the Modern Language Association and currently serves on the editorial board and manuscript collective of Science...

..., deadpanned by its very existence into a / Descending code of values, has moved right across the road from total financial upheaval / And caught regression head-on” (77). Nealon declares that these verses “describe ex- actly the parameters of the struggle of the American city in the seventies: would...

... academic forum. Other recent scholarship has productively worked to put Auden in conversation with non-Anglophone literary movements and traditions, though more work might yet be done on his stateside ties to the gay, Jewish, African American, and émigré communities in the postwar years. Encouraging new...

...Katie Fitzpatrick This article reads Lionel Trilling’s 1947 novel, The Middle of the Journey , through postwar controversies about the relationship between law and conscience. The 1945–46 Nuremberg Trials divided American liberals, who disputed whether fascism was best combated by fidelity...