Concise Cmpn 2Oth Amer Poetry C by Fredman

A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405120029)

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Concise Cmpn 2Oth Amer Poetry C by Fredman

A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry

$139.95
Concise Cmpn 2Oth Amer Poetry C by Fredman

A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry

$139.95
Format: Hardcover
Description
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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.


Author: Stephen Fredman
ISBN-10: 1405120029
ISBN-13: 9781405120029
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 06/10/2005
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.22w x 1.04d
By Stephen Fredman
By Stephen Fredman
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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.

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