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History, memory, and the literary left modern American poetry, 1935-1968

Title
History, memory, and the literary left [electronic resource] : modern American poetry, 1935-1968 / by John Lowney.
Author
Lowney, John, 1957-
Publication
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.

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Description
1 online resource (xii, 287 p.)
Series Statement
Contemporary North American poetry series
Uniform Title
History, memory, and the literary left (Online)
Alternative Title
History, memory, and the literary left (Online)
Subject
  • American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Right and left (Political science) in literature
  • Politics and literature > United States > History > 20th century
  • Poets, American > 20th century > Political and social views
  • Depressions > 1929 > United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-277) and index.
Access (note)
  • Access restricted to authorized users.
Contents
The janitor's poems of every day: American poetry and the 1930's -- Buried history: the popular front poetics of Muriel Rukeyser's The book of the dead -- Allegories of salvage: the peripheral vision of Elizabeth Bishop's North & South -- Harlem Disc-tortions: the jazz memory of Langston Hughes's Montage of a dream deferred -- A reportage and Redemption: the poetics of African American countermemory in Gwendolyn Brook's In the Mecca -- A metamorphic palimpsest: the underground memory of Thomas McGrath's Letter to an imaginary friend -- The spectre of the 1930s: George Oppen's Of being numerous and historical amnesia.
LCCN
2006044519
OCLC
ssj0000172383
Author
Lowney, John, 1957-
Title
History, memory, and the literary left [electronic resource] : modern American poetry, 1935-1968 / by John Lowney.
Imprint
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2006.
Series
Contemporary North American poetry series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-277) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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