'The Case for Cummings' shows how E.E. Cummings has become fixed in criticism due to a misreading of his work by critics. Many critics in the 1920s were hostile to Cummings, forcing Cummings supporters to either defend or apologise for him. Thus, in the 1920s pro-Cummingsian critics defined and fixed the battleground' - collectively collating Cummings themes - love, spring, satire, individualism, and transcendence yet these areas became the very source of attack from anti-Cummingsian critics. This investigation, utilizing the literary theories of Derrida, Bakhtin, Foucault, Bloom, and Cixous,...
'The Case for Cummings' shows how E.E. Cummings has become fixed in criticism due to a misreading of his work by critics. Many critics in the 1920s we...
