Research Catalog

Title

Rhetorics of literacy [electronic resource] : the cultivation of American dialect poetry / Nadia Nurhussein.

Author

Nurhussein, Nadia, 1974-

Publication

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013.

Details

Description

1 online resource (xi, 292 p.) : ill.

Uniform Title

Rhetorics of literacy (Online)

Alternative Title

Rhetorics of literacy (Online)

Subject

• Dialect poetry, American > History and criticism
• American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism
• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• Literacy in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-275) and index.

Access (note)

• Access restricted to authorized users.

Contents

The difficulty of dialect poetry -- Plain and peculiar dialects : Bret Harte and James Whitcomb Riley -- Lettered dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar I -- Cultivated dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar II -- Gendered dialect : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Maggie Pogue Johnson -- Annotated dialect : Claude McKay and Langston Hughes.

LCCN

2012038435

OCLC

ssj0001058781

Author

Nurhussein, Nadia, 1974-

Title

Rhetorics of literacy [electronic resource] : the cultivation of American dialect poetry / Nadia Nurhussein.

Imprint

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-275) and index.

Access

Access restricted to authorized users.

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