Democracy, culture, and the voice of poetry
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Democracy, culture, and the voice of poetry
（The University Center for Human Values series）
Princeton University Press, c2002
- pbk.
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Includes index
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Description
The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky, however, argues that this gloomy diagnosis is as wrongheaded as it is familiar. Pinsky, whose remarkable career as a poet itself undermines the view, writes that to portray poetry and democracy as enemies is to radically misconstrue both. The voice of poetry, he shows, resonates with profound significance at the very heart of democratic culture.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix I: Culture 1 II: Vocality 19 III: Self-Consciousness 30 IV: Performance 43 V: Social Presence 46 VI: Readers 55 VII: The Narcissistic and the Personal 64 VIII: Models of Culture 73 IX: Conclusion 79 Index of Names 95
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