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 poetsincluding Hart Crane and Robert Lowelloccupy 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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The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry
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 poetsincluding Hart Crane and Robert Lowelloccupy 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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ISBN-13: | 9780415762670 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 06/09/2014 |
Series: | Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory |
Pages: | 232 |
Product dimensions: | 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d) |
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