HISTORY, MEMORY, AND THE LITERARY LEFT by John Lowney, Alan Golding (Editor), Lynn Keller (Editor) ( 9781587295089 )

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Title:

HISTORY, MEMORY, AND THE LITERARY LEFT
MODERN AMERICAN POETRY, 1935-1968

By:

John Lowney, Alan Golding (Editor), Lynn Keller (Editor)

Format:

Hardback

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ISBN 10:

1587295083

ISBN 13:

9781587295089

Publisher:

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS

Pub. date:

1 October, 2006

Series:

Contemporary North American Poetry

Pages:

324

Description:

Offering history of modern American poetry, this work investigates the Depression era's impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930s through the emergence of the social movements of the 1960s. It articulates the Left's challenges to national collective memory and redefines the importance of late modernism.

Synopsis:

In this nuanced revisionist history of modern American poetry, John Lowney investigates the Depression era's impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930s through the emergence of the new social movements of the 1960s. Informed by an ongoing scholarly reconsideration of 1930s American culture and concentrating on Left writers whose historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Lowney articulates the Left's challenges to national collective memory and redefines the importance of late modernism in American literary history. The late modernist writers Lowney studies most closely - Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Thomas McGrath, and George Oppen - are not all customarily associated with the 1930s, nor are they commonly seen as literary peers. By examining these late modernist writers comparatively, Lowney foregrounds differences of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and social class and region while emphasizing how each writer developed poetic forms that responded to the cultural politics and socioaesthetic debates of the 1930s.In so doing, he calls into question the boundaries that have limited the scholarly dialogue about modern poetry. No other study of American poetry has considered the particular gathering of careers that Lowney considers. As poets whose collective historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the turmoil of the Depression and war years and the Cold War's repression or rewriting of history, their diverse talents represent a distinct generational impact on U.S. and international literary history.

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Imprint:

University of Iowa Press

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Returnable

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