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Title The Cambridge history of American literature. Vol. 8, Poetry and criticism, 1940-1995 / general editor, Sacvan Bercovitch
Published Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1996

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 624 pages)
Contents Poetry, Politics, and Intellectuals -- Introduction / Robert von Hallberg -- The Place of Poetry in the Culture, 1945-1950 -- Politics -- Rear Guards -- Avant-Gardes -- Authenticity -- Translation -- Conclusion: The Place of Poets, 1995 -- Appendix I: Biographies of Poets -- Criticism since 1940 -- Introduction / Evan Carton and Gerald Graff -- Politics and American Criticism -- The Emergence of Academic Criticism -- The Nationalizing of the New Criticism -- The Canon, the Academy, and Gender -- Deconstruction and Poststructuralism -- From Textuality to Materiality -- Cultural and Historical Studies -- Conclusion: Academic Criticism and its Discontents -- Appendix II: Biographies of Critics
Summary "Volume 8, concerned with works of poetry and criticism written between 1940 and the present, brings together two different sets of materials and narrative forms: the aesthetic and the institutional. Discarding the traditional synoptic overview of major figures, von Hallberg, Graff, and Carton settle in favor of a history from the inside--a history of interstices and relations, equal to the task of considering the contexts of art, power, and criticism in which it is set."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
American poetry.
English.
American Literature.
Languages & Literatures.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Bercovitch, Sacvan
ISBN 9781139054713
1139054716
9781139054713
Other Titles Poetry and criticism, 1940-1995