The New American poetry and cold war nationalism 1st ed.

Author

• Delbos, Stephan

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030773526

Series

Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics

Subject(s)

• AMERICA--LITERATURES
• LITERATURE-PHILOSOPHY

Notes

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Abstract

This book examines Donald M. Allen’s crucially influential poetry anthology The New American Poetry, 1945–1960, from the perspectives of American Cold War nationalism and literary transnationalism, considering how the anthology expresses and challenges Cold War norms, claiming post-war Anglophone poetic innovation for the United States and reflecting the conservative American society of the 1950s. Examining the crossroads of politics, social life, and literature during the Cold War, this book puts Allen’s anthology into its proper context and reveals how the editor was influenced by the volatile climate of nationalism and politics that pervaded every aspect of American life during the Cold War. Reconsidering the dramatic influence that Allen’s anthology has had on the way we think about American poetry and the way we anthologize it, and recontextualizing The New American Poetry as a document of the Cold War, this study not only helps us come to a more accurate understanding of how the anthology came into being, but also encourages new ways of thinking about Anglophone poetry as a whole, in the twentieth century and today.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (vi, 240 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

1. Introduction --
2. Raw Americans: The Persistence of The New American Poetry's National, Binary Model of Anglophone Poetry --
3. Behind Enemy Lines: The New American Poetry as a Cold War Anthology --
4. The Community of Love: The New American Poetry and Revolutionary Relationships in Cold War America --
5. This Thing Is Most National: Nationalism and Assimilation in The New American Poetry --
6. Post-War to Post-Truth: Reassessing the American Avant-garde Canon --
7. Conclusion: The Slow Collapse of the Formalist Framework.

Exemplar(s)

#	Accession No.	Call Number	Location	Status
1.	00986/21	809.1 Del N	Online !	Available