| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 243 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
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Wisconsin project on American writers
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Wisconsin project on American writers.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-234) and index. |
| Contents |
A history of American poetry anthologies -- Poets canonizing poets: John Berryman's "Homage to Mistress Bradstreet" -- New criticism and American poetry in the academy -- Little magazines and alternative canons: The example of Origin -- "Provisionally complicit resistance": language writing and the institution(s) of poetry. |
| Summary |
From Outlaw to Classic presents a sweeping history of the forces that have shaped, and continue to shape, the American poetry canon. Students, scholars, critics, and poets will welcome this enlightening and impressively documented book. Recent writings by critics and theorists on literary canons have dealt almost exclusively with prose; Alan Golding shows that, like all canons, those of American poetry are characterized by conflict. Choosing a series of varied but representative instances, he analyzes battles and contentions among poets, anthologists, poetry magazine editors, and schools of thought in university English departments. The chapters present a history of American poetry anthologies; compare competing models of canon-formation, the aesthetic (poet-centered) and the institutional (critic-centered); discuss the influence of the New Critics, emphasizing their status as practicing poets, their anti-nationalist reading of American poetry, and the landmark textbook, Understanding Poetry by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren; examine the canonizing effects of an experimental "little magazine," Origin; and trace how the Language poets address, in both their theory and their method, the canonizing institutions and canonical assumptions of the age. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc.
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American poetry. |
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Canon (Literature)
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Canon (Literature) |
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English poetry |
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United States |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Golding, Alan C., 1952- From outlaw to classic. Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, ©1995 9780299146047 (DLC) 94024157 (OCoLC)31331705 |
| ISBN |
9780299146030 (electronic book) |
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0299146030 (electronic book) |
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0299146006 |
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0299146049 (paperback) |
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9780299146047 |
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9780299146009 |
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