Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry

2011. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-29008-6
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 345 g

Reihe: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden, Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political transformations of the past century.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mikkelsen, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Pragmatismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Pastoral Ideology and the Pragmatic Response Tramp Culture and the Cult of Pan: Robert Frost's Pastoral of Class Mobility 'The Truth About Us': Pastoral, Pragmatism, and William Carlos Williams's Paterson 'Fat!  Fat!  Fat!  Fat!':  Wallace Stevens's Figurations of Masculinity 'The Mooring of Starting Out': John Ashbery's Pastoral Origins American Pastoral Futures

Über Autor(innen)

ANN MARIE MIKKELSEN Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University, USA.