The dark end of the street : margins in American Vanguard poetry

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The dark end of the street : margins in American Vanguard poetry

Maria Damon

(American culture / edited by Stanley Aronowitz, Sandra M. Gilbert, and Jackson Lears, 7)

University of Minnesota Press, c1993

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-291) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Maria Damon brings a new sensitivity to modern poetic criticism. She adds an important dimension to cultural theory, revealing the struggles of American poets as they address important questions about art, social life, and the oppression they encounter. Taking as her premise that the intensity of poetic language is an appropriate venue for representing the "dark end of the street" of social pain, Damon foregrounds the work and lives of a number of modern American poets in order to argue that the American avant-garde is located in the experimental literary works of social "outsiders." Unlike most literary studies on poetry and poetics, "The Dark End of the Street" examines an unusually wide range of poets and poetic activities. Damon explores avant-garde poetry as writing that pushes at the limits of experience as well as at the limits of conventional form. She argues that the marginalized and oppressed, ostensibly the most expendable members of American society, have produced its truly vanguard literature. Damon brings a sense of social context to a field long dominated by purely formalist criticism, ultimately revealing how time, place, and circumstance affect the creation, distribution, and reception of modern poetry. This book is intended for contemporary American poetry studies, cultural studies, and American studies.

目次

  • Introductions and interdictions
  • "Unmeaning jagon" / Uncanonized beatitude: Bob Kaufman, Poet
  • The child who writes / The child who died
  • Dirty jokes and angels: Jack Spicer and Robert Duncan - Writing the Gay community
  • Gertrude Stein's doggerel "Yiddish": women, dogs and Jews
  • Afterword: closer than close.

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    edited by Stanley Aronowitz, Sandra M. Gilbert, and Jackson Lears

    University of Minnesota Press

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