Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes,...
mehr
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt / Zentrale
Fernleihe:
keine Fernleihe
Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, and art forms. This new idea of adolescence became the driving force behind some of the modern era's most original poetry. Stephen Burt demonstrates how adolescence supplied the inspiration, and at times the formal principles, on which many twentieth-century poets founded their works. William Modernist poetics of adolescence -- From schools to subcultures: adolescence in modern British poetry -- Soldiers, babysitters, delinquents, and mutants: adolescence in midcentury American poetry -- Are you one of those girls? Feminist poetics of adolescence -- An excess of dreamy possibilities: Ireland and Australia -- Midair: adolescence in contemporary American poetry
