The Architecture of Address : The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
ISBN-10
041597058X
ISBN-13
9780415970587
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint
Routledge
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 11th, 2004
Print length
232 Pages
Weight
590 grams
Dimensions
16.30 x 23.50 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literature: history & criticism
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This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the moment.
The Architecture of Address traces the evolution of an American species of lyric capable of public pronouncement without polemic. Beginning with Whitman, Jake Adam York seeks to describe a kind of poem wherein the most ambitious poets--including Hart Crane and Robert Lowell--occupy and reconstruct important public spaces. This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the monument.
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