| Description |
xi, 279 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1: Eliot and Pound: dissociations of sensibility and power. Dissociations, natural and supernatural ; "The silhouette of man" ; Purgatory and Apocalypse ; A problem of order ; The old sublime ; The vortex of art ; Esthetic politics ; Prejudice and abstraction -- Part 2: Stevens and Williams: the source of poetry. "A confidence in the world" ; "A malady of the Quotidian" ; The necessary angel of reality ; The imagination as value ; The dehumanization of art ; "The city as a man" ; "A peculiar majesty" ; The sign and presence of the human -- Part 3: Poetry and politics. Cultural and humanist poetics ; Poetry, culture, and politics -- Appendix A. The ethical humanism of Emmanuel Levinas -- Appendix B. Bakhtin and the American poets --Appendix C. A note on Ethics and dialogue in the works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandelshtam, and Celan / by Michael Eskin. |
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Politics in literature.
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Politics in literature. |
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Culture in literature.
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Culture in literature. |
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Politics and literature. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. |
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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955. |
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Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963. |
| ISBN |
0765803038 cloth |
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9780765803030 cloth |
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9781412807357 paper |
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1412807352 paper |
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