9780739167557 - Poems Containing History: Twentieth-Century American Poetry's Engagement with the Past von Grieve-Carlson, Gary (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. KlappentextEzra Pound s definition of an epic as a poem containing history raises questions: how can a poem contain history? And if it can, does it help us to think about history in ways that conventional historiography cannot? Poems.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. 215 pages. 9.00x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Poems Containing History: Twentieth-Century American Poetry's Engagement with the Past, by Gary Grieve-Carlson, argues that twentieth-century American poetry has 'contained' and helped its readers to think about history in a variety of provocative and powerful ways. Tracing the discussion of the relationship between poetry and history from Aristotle's Poetics to Norman Mailer's The Armiesof the Night and Hayden White's Metahistory, the book shows that even as history evolves into a professional, academic discipline in the late nineteenth century, and as its practitioners emphasize the scientific aspects of their work and minimize its literary aspects, twentieth-century American poets continue to take history as the subject of their major poems.