|
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets
|
Buy Now
Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,330
Discovery Miles 23 300
You Save: R336
(13%)
|
|
|
Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford English Monographs
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
What is the difference between the 'I' of a poem-the lyric subject-
and the liberal subject of rights? Lyric and Liberalism in the Age
of American Empire uses this question to re-examine the work of
five major American poets, changing our understanding of their
writing and the field of post-war American poetry. Through extended
readings of the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Amiri
Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie Graham, Hugh Foley shows how poets
have imagined liberalism as a problem for poetry. Foley's book
offers a new approach to ongoing debates about the nature of lyric
by demonstrating the entanglement of ideas about the lyric poem
with the development of twentieth-century liberal discussions of
individuality. Arguing that the nature of American empire in this
period-underpinned by the discourse of individual rights-forced
poets to reckon with this entanglement, it demonstrates how this
reckoning helped to shape poetry in the post-war period. By tracing
the ways a lyric poem performs personhood, and the ways that this
person can be distinguished from the individual envisioned by
post-war liberalism, Foley shows how each poet stages a critique of
liberalism from inside the standpoint of 'lyric'>. This book
demonstrates the capacities of poetry for rethinking its own
relation to history and politics, providing a new perspective on a
vital era of American poetry.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
