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Mastery's end : travel and postwar American poetry
- Title
- Mastery's end : travel and postwar American poetry / Jeffrey Gray.
- Author
- Gray, Jeffrey, 1944-
- Publication
- Athens : University of Georgia Press, ©2005.
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 288 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Focusing on lyric poetry, Mastery's End looks at important, yet neglected, issues of subjectivity in post-World War II travel literature. Jeffrey Gray departs from related studies in two regards: nearly all recent scholarly books on the literature of travel have dealt with pre-twentieth-century periods, and all are concerned with narrative genres. Further, Gray questions whether the postcolonial theoretical model of travel as mastery, hegemony, and exploitation still applies. In its place he suggests a model of vulnerability, incoherence, and disorientation to reflect the modern destabilizing nature of travel, a condition that began with the unprecedented movement of people during and after World War II and has not abated since."--Jacket.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- American poetry > Foreign influences
- American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
- Americans > Foreign countries > History > 20th century
- Foreign countries in literature
- Travelers in literature
- Travel in literature
- American poetry
- Americans > Foreign countries
- Foreign countries in literature
- Literature
- Travel in literature
- Travelers in literature
- Reisegedicht
- Ausland
- Lyrik
- Gedichten
- Amerikaans
- Reizen
- Reizigers
- Buitenland
- Foreign countries > In literature
- USA
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-280) and index.
- Contents
- Roots and routes : the trouble with travel -- Falling off the round, turning world : Elizabeth Bishop's Tristes tropiques -- Interlude : travelers and tourists : from Bishop to Lowell -- Fear of flying : Robert Lowell and the Trope of vulnerability -- Interlude : dandies and flaneurs : American poetry and the center-margin debate -- The great escape : John Ashbery's Travel Agency -- Shooting the Gulf : three beat questions of travel -- The problem of witness : the travels of Derek Walcott -- Travel and difference : Lyn Hejinian and Nathaniel Mackey -- Epilogue : the trouble with travel.
- ISBN
- 0820326631
- 9780820326634
- LCCN
- 2004018183
- OCLC
- ocm56104160
- 56104160
- SCSB-1361488
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library