The Resurgence of Traditional Poetic Form and the Current Status of Poetry's Place in American Culture (Studies in American Literature, 40)

Walzer, Kevin

ISBN 10: 0773475540 / ISBN 13: 9780773475540

Published by Edwin Mellen Press, 2001

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2001 hardcover published without jacket/ex-library with usual markings/clean & unmarked text. 174 p.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Resurgence of Traditional Poetic Form and the Current Status of Poetry's Place in American Culture (Studies in American Literature, 40)
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773475540
• ISBN 13: 9780773475540
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

US poet and critic Walzer presents 14 essays on a movement called constructive postmodernism, which such theorists as Frederick Turner identify as helping chart new directions for literary theory past the fragmentary impasses of deconstruction, identity politics, and cultural studies. They widen the focus of his 1994 The Ghost of Tradition: Expansive Poetry and Postmodernism to inquire more broadly about the impact of constructive postmodernism on formal and cultural readings of American poetry. Some have been previously published in earlier forms. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)