The Art of Twentieth-Century American Poetry: Modernism and After

Charles Altieri

apl 2008 · Vendu par John Wiley & Sons

À propos de cet e-book

Written by a leading critic, this invigorating introduction to modernist American poetry conveys the excitement that can be generated by a careful reading of modernist poems.

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• Encourages readers to identify with the modernists’ sense of the revolutionary possibilities of their art.
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• Embraces four generations of modernist American poets up through to the 1980s.
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• Gives readers a sense of the ambitions, the disillusionments and the continuities of modernist poetry.
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• Includes close readings of particular poems which show how readers can use these works to connect with what concerns them.

À propos de l'auteur

Charles Altieri is Stageberg Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. His previous publications include The Particulars of Rapture: An Aesthetics of the Affects (2003), Subjective Agency: A Theory of First-person Expressivity and its Social Implications (Blackwell, 1994), Postmodernism Now (1999), and Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry (1990).