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Split-Gut Song: Jean Toomer and the Poetics of Modernity
ISBN: 9780817358464 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In Split-Gut Song, Karen Jackson Ford looks at what it means to be African American, free, and creative by analyzing Jean Toomer's main body of work, specifically, his groundbreaking creation Cane. When first published in 1923, this pivotal work of modernism was widely hailed as inaugurating a truly artistic African American literary tradition. Yet Toomer's experiments in literary form are consistently read in terms of political radicalism protest and uplift rather than literary radicalism. Ford contextualizes Toomer's poetry, letters, and essays in the literary... In Split-Gut Song, Karen Jackson Ford looks at what it means to be African American, free, and creative by analyzing Jean Toomer's main bod... |
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Gender and the Poetics of Excess: Moments of Brocade
ISBN: 9781604732559 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws in their work, are strategies for escaping the inhibiting and sometimes inimical conventions too often imposed on women writers. The forms of excess vary with each poet, but by conceiving of poetic excess in relation to literary decorum, this study establishes a shared motivation for such a strategy. Literary decorum is one instrument a culture employs to constrain its writers. Perhaps it is the most effective because it is the least... The argument posed in this analysis is that the poetic excesses of several major female poets, excesses that have been typically regarded as flaws ... |
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135,98 |