| A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry Contributor(s): Fredman, Stephen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1405120029 ISBN-13: 9781405120029 Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell OUR PRICE: $132.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Poetry - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.509 |
| LCCN: 2004025183 |
| Series: Concise Companions to Literature and Culture |
| Physical Information: 1.04" H x 6.22" W x 9.24" (1.21 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
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| Publisher Description: 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.
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