Pinsky Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry

Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2515-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 27, 112 Seiten

Reihe: The University Center for Human Values Series

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Pinsky, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

I: Culture 1

II: Vocality 19

III: Self-Consciousness 30

IV: Performance 43

V: Social Presence 46

VI: Readers 55

VII: The Narcissistic and the Personal 64

VIII: Models of Culture 73

IX: Conclusion 79

Index of Names 95

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Pinsky, who served as Poet Laureate of the United States, 1997-2000, is the author of many books, including: Jersey Rain, Americans' Favorite Poems, Poems to Read, The Sounds of Poetry, The Handbook of Heartbreak, The Inferno of Dante: A New Verse Translation, among others, and three works published by Princeton: An Explanation of America; The Situation of Poetry; and Sadness and Happiness. He is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Boston University. This book emerged from the Tanner Lectures that he delivered at Princeton's University Center for Human Values in 2001.