A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Stephen Fredman

2008 оны 4-р сар · John Wiley & Sons ээс худалдаалагдав

Энэ электрон номын тухай

This Concise Companion gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country’s intellectual life more broadly.

• Helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts.
  
• Written by prominent specialists in the field.
  
• Places the poetry of the period within contexts such as: war; feminism and the female poet; poetries of immigration and migration; communism and anti-communism; philosophy and theory.
  
• Each chapter ranges across the entire century, comparing poets from one part of the century to those of another.
  
• New syntheses make the volume of interest to scholars as well as students and general readers.

Зохиогчийн тухай

Stephen Fredman is Professor of English and Department Chair at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of three books of criticism; Poet’s Prose: The Crisis in American Verse (1983), The Grounding of American Poetry: Charles Olson and the Emersonian Tradition (1993), and A Menorah for Athena: Charles Reznikoff and the Jewish Dilemmas of Objectivist Poetry (2001). He has translated three books from Spanish and is also the author of Seaslug, a book of poetry.