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A Companion to American Poetry


A Companion to American Poetry


Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1. Aufl.

von: Mary McAleer Balkun, Jeffrey Gray, Paul Jaussen

123,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 11.04.2022
ISBN/EAN: 9781119669227
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 528

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<b>A COMPANION TO AMERICAN POETRY</b> <p><i>A Companion to American Poetry</i> brings together original essays by both established scholars and emerging critical voices to explore the latest topics and debates in American poetry and its study. Highlighting the diverse nature of poetic practice and scholarship, this comprehensive volume addresses a broad range of individual poets, movements, genres, and concepts from the seventeenth century to the present day.</p> <p>Organized thematically, the Companion’s thirty-seven chapters address a variety of emerging trends in American poetry, providing historical context and new perspectives on topics such as poetics and identity, poetry and the arts, early and late experimentalisms, poetry and the transcendent, transnational poetics, poetry of engagement, poetry in cinema and popular music, Queer and Trans poetics, poetry and politics in the 21st century, and African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetries.</p> <p>Both a nuanced survey of American poetry and a catalyst for future scholarship, <i>A Companion to American Poetry </i>is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, academic researchers and scholars, and general readers with interest in current trends in American poetry.</p>
<p>1 Introduction 1<br /><i>Mary McAleer Balkun, Jeffrey Gray, and Paul Jaussen</i></p> <p><b>Section 1: Poetry before "American Poetry" 5</b></p> <p>2 Worldmaking and Ambition in History Poems by Early American Women: The Examples of Anne Bradstreet and Sarah Wentworth Morton 7<br /><i>Tamara Harvey</i></p> <p>3 Before Poetry: Revival Verse and Sermonic Address in Eighteenth-Century America 18<br /><i>Wendy Raphael Roberts</i></p> <p>4 The Inca in the Nineteenth-Century US Poetic Imaginary 28<br /><i>Adam Bradford</i></p> <p>5 African American Spirituals and Their Legacy 39<br /><i>Lauri Scheyer</i></p> <p><b>Section 2: Poetry and The Transcendent 51</b></p> <p>6 Death and Mourning in American Poetry from the Puritans to the Modernists 53<br /><i>Wendy Martin and Camille Meder</i></p> <p>7 Artificers of the World: Transcendentalism and Its Poetic Legacies 68<br /><i>Bruce Ronda</i></p> <p>8 "Do Not Be Content with an Imaginary God": Modern Poetry, Spirituality, and the Problem of Belief 82<br /><i>Norman Finkelstein</i></p> <p>9 Enduring Epiphany: The Politics of Revelation in Contemporary Poetry 95<br /><i>Nikki Skillman</i></p> <p><b>Section 3: Experimentalisms, Early and Late 107</b></p> <p>10 The New in Hindsight: Modernist Poetry and Poetics in the Classroom 109<br /><i>Bob Perelman</i></p> <p>11 Philosophy, Poetry, and the Principle of Charity 120<br /><i>Johanna Winant</i></p> <p>12 "Making a Way": <i>The Black Mountain Review</i> and Mid-Twentieth Century Communities 133<br /><i>Joshua Hoeynck</i></p> <p>13 Causes, Movements, Theory: Between Language Poetry and New Narrative 146<br /><i>Kaplan Harris</i></p> <p>14 Radical Mimesis: Conceptual Dialectics and the African Diaspora 157<br /><i>Tyrone Williams</i></p> <p>15 Wearables and Modernist Poetry’s Prototypes 166<br /><i>Margaret Konkol</i></p> <p>16 Reading the Unreadable in Modern American Poetry 184<br /><i>Steven Gould Axelrod</i></p> <p><b>Section 4: Poetry and Identity 199<br /></b><br />17 The Black Quatrain and America's Racialized Poetics 201<br /><i>Ben Glaser</i></p> <p>18 Queer Poetics: Voices of the Subaltern in American Poetry 216<br /><i>Daniel Enrique Pérez</i></p> <p>19 Trans Poetry and Poetics 230<br /><i>Trace Peterson</i></p> <p><b>Section 5: Transnational Poetry 243</b></p> <p>20 Ezhi-aawechigaazhangwaa: Indigenous American Comparisons 245<br /><i>Margaret Noodin</i></p> <p>21 Trans-Pacific Poetics: Eastern Influences on American Poetry in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries 257<br /><i>Susan M Schultz</i></p> <p>22 "Audience Distant Relative": Fugitive Transnationality and Poetic Form 269<br /><i>Mayumo Inoue</i></p> <p>23 "A Little Room in a House Set Aflame": American Poetry and Globalization in the Twenty-First Century 283<br /><i>Walt Hunter</i></p> <p>24 Rethinking Transnationalism in American Poetry 294<br /><i>Sarah Dowling</i></p> <p><b>Section 6: Poetry and the Arts 303</b></p> <p>25 "Sketch of a Man on a Platform": The Modern Feminist Portrait Poem 305<br /><i>Andrew Epstein</i></p> <p>26 Poetry in the Public Square 320<br /><i>Stephen Cushman</i></p> <p>27 Life as New Media: Bioart, Biopoetry, and the Xenotext Experiment 332<br /><i>Avery Slater</i></p> <p>28 "Compared to What": Past and Future Paths in Rap Poetics 344<br /><i>Andrew DuBois</i></p> <p>29 American Poetry Goes to the Movies 354<br /><i>Susan Cooke Weeber</i></p> <p><b>Section 7: Nature and After 367</b></p> <p>30 Reading God's Book of the World 369<br /><i>Robert Daly</i></p> <p>31 "Sharing with the Ants": American Ecopoetry from Lydia Sigourney to Ross Gay 379<br /><i>Christoph Irmscher</i></p> <p>32 Post-Natural Modernism 390<br /><i>Mark C Long</i></p> <p>33 Rethinking the Anthropocene: Contemporary Ecopoetics and Epochal Imaginings 402<br /><i>Margaret Ronda</i></p> <p><b>Section 8: Poetry of Engagement 415</b></p> <p>34 American War Poetry 417<br /><i>Cary Nelson</i></p> <p>35 Lynch Fragments 431<br /><i>Aldon Lynn Nielsen</i></p> <p>36 Indigenous Docupoetry: "'Last Indian War' in Verse" 442<br /><i>Kimberly Blaeser</i></p> <p>37 "It's Been a While": Latinx Poetries and the Empire of Borders 455<br /><i>Michael Dowdy</i></p> <p>38 The Politics of American Poetry in the Twenty-First Century 469<br /><i>David Lau</i></p> <p>Index 484</p>
<p><b>Mary McAleer Balkun</b> is Professor of English at Seton Hall University, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in early American literature and culture, the American gothic and grotesque, and digital humanities. She is also an instructor in the university's Honors program. She has served as the Director of Faculty Development at the university since 2015. She is the author or editor of six books, as well as numerous articles on early American topics, instructional pedagogy, and faculty governance. Her current book project is <i>New World Upside Down: The Early American Grotesque</i>.</p> <p><b>Jeffrey H. Gray</b> is Professor of English at Seton Hall University. He is the author of the book <i>Mastery's End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry</i> and ofnumerous articles on American and Latin American literature. He is the editor of <i>The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Poets and Poetry</i>, the largest reference work of its kind, and co-editor, with Ann Keniston, of<i> The News from Poems: Essays on the New American Poetry of Engagement </i>and of <i>The New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21<sup>st</sup> Century Anthology</i>. His poetry has appeared in <i>The American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, Yale Review, PN Review, Lana Turner Review, Western Humanities Review, </i>and other journals. He is also the translator of Rodrigo Rey Rosa's novels <i>The African Shore </i>(nominated for the Pen Translation Award in 2014) and <i>Chaos: A Fable</i>.</p> <p><b>Paul Jaussen</b> is an Associate Professor of Literature at Lawrence Technological University in Detroit, MI, where he co-directs the Humanity+Technology lecture series. His teaching and research focuses on poetry and poetics, literary theory, and the relationship between literature and technology. His first book, <i>Writing in Real Time: Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2017), deploys systems theory as a model for comprehending the complex, adaptive forms of the modern and contemporary American long poem. His most recently published essays have been dedicated to poetry and the art object in the political philosophy of Hannah Arendt, spectrality and the transhistorical literary catalogue, and the use of hypothetical focalization in William Faulker's <i>Absalom, Absalom!</i> These and other works have appeared in <i>New Literary History</i>, <i>Comparative Literature</i>, <i>Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, Chicago Review</i>, and <i>ASAP/J</i>, among others. He is currently writing a second book alongside this <i>Companion</i>, tentatively entitled <i>Rumors of Utopia: Contemporary Literature's Public Language</i>.</p>
<p><b>A COMPANION TO AMERICAN POETRY</b></p> <p><i>A Companion to American Poetry</i> brings together original essays by both established scholars and emerging critical voices to explore the latest topics and debates in American poetry and its study. Highlighting the diverse nature of poetic practice and scholarship, this comprehensive volume addresses a broad range of individual poets, movements, genres, and concepts from the seventeenth century to the present day.</p> <p>Organized thematically, the <i>Companion</i>'s thirty-seven chapters address a variety of emerging trends in American poetry, providing historical context and new perspectives on topics such as poetics and identity, poetry and the arts, early and late experimentalisms, poetry and the transcendent, transnational poetics, poetry of engagement, poetry in cinema and popular music, Queer and Trans poetics, poetry and politics in the 21st century, and African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Indigenous poetries.</p> <p>Both a nuanced survey of American poetry and a catalyst for future scholarship, <i>A Companion to American Poetry</i> is essential reading for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, academic researchers and scholars, and general readers with interest in current trends in American poetry.</p>
<p>"This impressive <i>Companion to American Poetry</i> presents cutting-edge work by distinguished senior scholars and exciting emerging ones. Collectively, its thematically organized essays—on topics ranging from transnationalism to Trans poetry, from African American spirituals to rethinking the Anthropocene—brilliantly display poetry’s intellectual depth, formal variety, emotional power, and diverse social engagements."<br />—<b>Lynn Keller</b>, Martha Meier Renk Bascom Professor of Poetry Emerita, University of Wisconsin-Madison</p>

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