The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry

ISBN-13: 9780415762670 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str.

Jake Adam York;¬Abar;¬Abar

Opis

This work traces the evolution of an American species of lyric capable of public pronouncement without polemic. Beginning with Whitman, York seeks to describe a kind of poem wherein the most ambitious poets occupy and reconstruct important public spaces.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Whitman's Ferry: Platform of Culture Whitman and the Oratory of Early Nineteenth-Century America Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Architecture The Ferry as Monument 3. Crossing Over Brooklyn Ferry: Hart Crane's The Bridge as Monument The Constuctive Principle The Architecture of Anamnesis in The Bridge The Final Figure and the Life of Monument 4. Urban Revitalization: Robert Lowell's 'For the Union Dead' and the American Tradition of Monumental Rhetoric Coordinations The Cemeteries of Culture Enabling Tradition 5. After Lowell: Some Conclusions and Final Considerations

O autorze

Jake Adam York is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado. His criticism has appeared in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and his poems have appeared in Shenandoah , The Southern Review , Crab Orchard Review, and other periodicals.