York The Architecture of Address

The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-1-135-87768-2
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

Reihe: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory

The Architecture of Address traces the evolution of an American species of lyric capable of public pronouncement without polemic. Beginning with Whitman, Jake Adam York seeks to describe a kind of poem wherein the most ambitious poets--including Hart Crane and Robert Lowell--occupy and reconstruct important public spaces. This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the monument.

Autoren/Hrsg.

York, Jake Adam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction
2. Whitman's Ferry: Platform of Culture
Whitman and the Oratory of Early Nineteenth-Century America
Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Architecture
The Ferry as Monument
3. Crossing Over Brooklyn Ferry: Hart Crane's The Bridge as Monument
The Constuctive Principle
The Architecture of Anamnesis in The Bridge
The Final Figure and the Life of Monument
4. Urban Revitalization: Robert Lowell's 'For the Union Dead' and the American Tradition of Monumental Rhetoric
Coordinations
The Cemeteries of Culture
Enabling Tradition
5. After Lowell: Some Conclusions and Final Considerations

Über Autor(innen)

Jake Adam York is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado. His criticism has appeared in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and his poems have appeared in Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, and other periodicals.