Foley Hugh (Teaching Fellow In English Queen Mary University Of London)
Foley Hugh (Teaching Fellow In English Queen Mary University Of London) - Lyric And Liberalism In The Age Of American Empire - Hardcover
Foley Hugh (Teaching Fellow In English Queen Mary University Of London) - Lyric And Liberalism In The Age Of American Empire - Hardcover
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Description: What is the difference between the I of a poem - - the lyric subject - - and the liberal subject of rights? Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire uses this question to re - examine the work of five major American poets changing our understanding of their writing and the field of post - war American poetry. Through extended readings of the work of Elizabeth Bishop Robert Lowell Amiri Baraka John Ashbery and Jorie Graham Hugh Foley shows how poets have imagined liberalism as a problem for poetry. Foley's book offers a new approach to ongoing debates about the nature of lyric by demonstrating the entanglement of ideas about the lyric poem with the development of twentieth - century liberal discussions of individuality. Arguing that the nature of American empire in this period - - underpinned by the discourse of individual rights - - forced poets to reckon with this entanglement it demonstrates how this reckoning helped to shape poetry in the post - war period. By tracing the ways a lyric poem performs personhood and the ways that this person can be distinguished from the individual envisioned by post - war liberalism Foley shows how each poet stages a critique of liberalism from inside the standpoint of lyric'>. This book demonstrates the capacities of poetry for rethinking its own relation to history and politics providing a new perspective on a vital era of American poetry.
Title: Lyric And Liberalism In The Age Of American Empire
Author(s): Foley Hugh (Teaching Fellow In English Queen Mary University Of London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192857095
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 12/14/2022
Series: Oxford English Monographs
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
Description: What is the difference between the I of a poem - - the lyric subject - - and the liberal subject of rights? Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire uses this question to re - examine the work of five major American poets changing our understanding of their writing and the field of post - war American poetry. Through extended readings of the work of Elizabeth Bishop Robert Lowell Amiri Baraka John Ashbery and Jorie Graham Hugh Foley shows how poets have imagined liberalism as a problem for poetry. Foley's book offers a new approach to ongoing debates about the nature of lyric by demonstrating the entanglement of ideas about the lyric poem with the development of twentieth - century liberal discussions of individuality. Arguing that the nature of American empire in this period - - underpinned by the discourse of individual rights - - forced poets to reckon with this entanglement it demonstrates how this reckoning helped to shape poetry in the post - war period. By tracing the ways a lyric poem performs personhood and the ways that this person can be distinguished from the individual envisioned by post - war liberalism Foley shows how each poet stages a critique of liberalism from inside the standpoint of lyric'>. This book demonstrates the capacities of poetry for rethinking its own relation to history and politics providing a new perspective on a vital era of American poetry.
Title: Lyric And Liberalism In The Age Of American Empire
Author(s): Foley Hugh (Teaching Fellow In English Queen Mary University Of London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192857095
Pages: 256 Pages
Publication Date: 12/14/2022
Series: Oxford English Monographs
Category: Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
