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Dark Airs - John Berryman and the Spiritual Politics of Cold War American Poetry (Paperback, New edition)
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Dark Airs - John Berryman and the Spiritual Politics of Cold War American Poetry (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Modern Poetry, 3
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In discussions of American poetry since World War II, the work of
John Berryman has become increasingly neglected and marginalized.
Critics have overwhelmingly chosen to favour the notion that he is
an academic, 'establishment' poet whose career can comfortably be
described as a move from New Critical traditionalism towards
self-absorbed confessionalism. This study shows how such a narrow
understanding of Berryman's work is reflective of a broader
critical inclination towards a codification of the literary canon
as a duel between competing factions of a formalist, establishment
'mainstream' and an experimentalist, countercultural 'avant-garde'.
By examining the extent to which Berryman's poetry engages with the
complex religio-political climate of Cold War American culture,
this study exposes the inadequacy of the paradigm of mainstream
traditionalism in relation to his work. In doing so, it opens up
threads of comparative possibility between his work and that of
poets ordinarily segregated from him by divisive conceptions of the
literary canon. As such, this volume provides a reconsideration of
Berryman's work that simultaneously asks broader questions about
the nature of the American poetic canon and established definitions
of 'postmodern' poetry.
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