{"product_id":"pursue-the-illusion-astrid-franke-9783825357511","title":"Pursue the Illusion: Problems of Public Poetry in America","description":"Based on the assumption that the concept of the 'public' as understood in American Pragmatism is better suited to literary and historical studies than is Habermas's \"public sphere\", this study investigates how public poetry pursues a public role not as a given but as a challenge and often an illusion. It traces a tradition of public poetry in the U.S. arising from the (neo-)classical tradition at the time of the American Revolution and its idea of poetry's public function in a republic to poetry as non-individualistic expression in the 19th century, to political poetry in the 1930s and '60s all the way to contemporary poets responding to September 11 and the war in Iraq. Offering nuanced readings of poems that reveal their public commitment and its problems at specific historical moments, the study bridges the gap between literary analysis and cultural studies and establishes a place for poetry in American Studies.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Astrid Franke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3825357511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783825357511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Universitatsverlag Winter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 281\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2011 pg. 236","brand":"Astrid Franke","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48454066340095,"sku":"9783825357511","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1ebd5807-edb6-4edb-8d0b-0893c835b876.jpg?v=1777303986","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pursue-the-illusion-astrid-franke-9783825357511","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}