The new American poetry and cold war nationalism / Stephan Delbos.
2021
PS324 .D45 2021
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Title
The new American poetry and cold war nationalism / Stephan Delbos.
Author
Delbos, Stephan, author.
ISBN
9783030773526 (electronic bk.)
3030773523 (electronic bk.)
9783030773519
3030773515
3030773523 (electronic bk.)
9783030773519
3030773515
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-77352-6 doi
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PS324 .D45 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
811/.5409
Summary
This book examines Donald M. Allens 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 Allens 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 Allens 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. Stephan Delbos is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures at Charles University, Prague. He has published several volumes of poetry and translation. In 2020 he was named the first Poet Laureate of Plymouth, Massachusetts. His most recent book is Small Talk (2021).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics.
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New American poetry and cold war nationalism.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Raw Americans: The Persistence of The New American Poetrys 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.
2. Raw Americans: The Persistence of The New American Poetrys 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.