{"product_id":"lyric-and-liberalism-in-the-hugh-foley-9780192857095","title":"Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire","description":"What is the difference between the 'I' of a poem--the lyric subject-- and the liberal subject of rights? \u003cem\u003e Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire \u003c\/em\u003e uses this question to re-examine the work of five major American poets, changing our understanding of their writing and the field of post-war American poetry. Through extended readings of the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie Graham, Hugh Foley shows how poets have imagined liberalism as a problem for poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFoley's book offers a new approach to ongoing debates about the nature of lyric by demonstrating the entanglement of ideas about the lyric poem with the development of twentieth-century liberal discussions of individuality. Arguing that the nature of American empire in this period--underpinned by the discourse of individual rights--forced poets to reckon with this entanglement, it demonstrates how this reckoning helped to shape poetry in the post-war period. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy tracing the ways a lyric poem performs personhood, and the ways that this person can be distinguished from the individual envisioned by post-war liberalism, Foley shows how each poet stages a critique of liberalism from inside the standpoint of 'lyric'. This book demonstrates the capacities of poetry for rethinking its own relation to history and politics, providing a new perspective on a vital era of American poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hugh Foley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0192857096\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780192857095\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/14\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.60w x 1.20d","brand":"Hugh Foley","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44069580996863,"sku":"9780192857095","price":90.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dbd17078-1970-420c-af49-1047f4ed04c0.jpg?v=1685425449","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lyric-and-liberalism-in-the-hugh-foley-9780192857095","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}