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  1. Before Modernism
    inventing American lyric
    Published: [2023]; © 2023
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for... more

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    How Black poets have charted the direction of American poetics for the past two centuriesBefore Modernism examines how Black poetics, in antagonism with White poetics in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, produced the conditions for the invention of modern American poetry. Through inspired readings of the poetry of Phillis Wheatley Peters, George Moses Horton, Ann Plato, James Monroe Whitfield, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper—as well as the poetry of neglected but once popular White poets William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—Virginia Jackson demonstrates how Black poets inspired the direction that American poetics has taken for the past two centuries. As an idea of poetry based on genres of poems such as ballads, elegies, odes, hymns, drinking songs, and epistles gave way to an idea of poetry based on genres of people—Black, White, male, female, Indigenous—almost all poetry became lyric poetry. Jackson traces the twisted paths leading to our current understanding of lyric, along the way presenting not only a new history but a new theory of American poetry.A major reassessment of the origins and development of American poetics, Before Modernism argues against a literary critical narrative that links American modernism directly to British or European Romanticism, emphasizing instead the many ways in which early Black poets intervened by inventing what Wheatley called “the deep design” of American lyric

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780691233116
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    RVK Categories: HR 1769
    Subjects: American poetry; American poetry; American poetry; Lyric poetry; Poetics; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African-American
    Other subjects: Heptameter; High culture; Historicism; History; Holism; I Wish (manhwa); Idealization; Ideology; Imagination; Immanuel Kant; Impasse; Indigenous peoples of the Americas; Intentionality; International community; Irrigation management; Jericho Brown; John Ashbery; Justin Kaplan; Kantianism; Locus Solus; Lyric poetry; Manthia Diawara; Mass migration; Medievalism; Meditations; Memorization; Mind control; Mneme; Modernism; Monetary policy; Moral imperative; Negative capability; On the Eve; Open Secrets; Pamphlet; Pedant; Personhood; Philosophy; Poet; Poetry; Pooling (resource management); Prehistory; Proclamation; Pun; Punishment; Rainer Maria Rilke; Ralph Waldo Emerson; Republicanism; Responsiveness; Samuel Beckett; Society; Spanish Americans; Speech; Sphere of influence; State of affairs (sociology); Subject (philosophy); Subjectivity; Sustainable development; T. S. Eliot; Textuality; The Possibilities (Preacher); Thomas Hobbes; Trimeter; Uncertainty; Virgil; W. E. B. Du Bois; Washington Irving; World literature; WorldCat; Writing; Adage; Adult; All things; Analogy; Archive; Biography; Black people; Book History (journal); C. L. R. James; Clotel; Colony; Columbia University Press; Complexion; Coviello; Critical race theory; Desertification; Dramatic monologue; Edgar Allan Poe; English poetry; Evocation; First appearance; Frigate; Fugitive slave laws; Genre; Geoffrey Hartman; Georgics; Great books; Harlem Renaissance; Henry Kissinger; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (303 Seiten), Illustrationen