| Description |
1 online resource (240 p.) |
| Series |
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series |
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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Poetry, Modernity, Crisis -- Part I Historical Materialism and the Materials of History -- Chapter 1 Thinking with Things: Language, Commodities, and the Social Ontologies of Objects in Louis Zukofsky's ''A''-8 and -9 -- Chapter 2 New Ways of Seeing: Muriel Rukeyser's ''Book of the Dead'' and the Politics of Documentary Photography |
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Chapter 3 Pieces of the Body Torn out by the Roots: Charles Reznikoff's 1934 Testimony and the Idiom of American Violence -- Part II Ethnographic Modernity and Its Discontents -- Chapter 4 Vernacular Technologies: The Folksong Collector, the Phonograph, and Blues Authenticity in Sterling A. Brown's Southern Road -- Chapter 5 Interlopers out of a Pale Land: Norman Macleod's Ethnographic Regionalism and Antimodernism in New Mexico -- Chapter 6 Object Lessons: Ethnographic Surrealism and the Poetics of Detachment in Lorine Niedecker's New Goose -- Coda: The Poet as Consumer -- Notes -- Works Cited |
| Summary |
This book gives readers a fresh take on Depression-era poetry in relation to the idea of modernity experienced as crisis |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Index |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009347792 |
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1009347799 |
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