Is American vision implicitly possessive, as a generation of critics contends? By viewing the American poetic tradition through the prism of pragmatism, Elisa New contests this claim. A new reading of how poetry "sees," her work is a passionate defense of the power of the poem, the ethics of perception, and the broader possibilities of American sight.
American poems see more fully, and less invasively, than accounts of American literature as an inscription of imperial national ideology would allow. Moreover, New argues, their ways of seeing draw on, and develop, a vigorous mode of...
Is American vision implicitly possessive, as a generation of critics contends? By viewing the American poetic tradition through the prism of pragma...
Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New England to the American literary canon, and its impact on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America.
An exploration and defense of the prominence of New England's literary tradition within the canon of American literature
Traces the impact of the literature of New England on the development of spirituality, community, and culture in America
Includes in-depth studies of work...
Timely and beautifully written, New England Beyond Criticism provides a passionate defense of the importance of the literature of New Englan...
