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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449997203321

Autore

York Jake Adam

Titolo

The architecture of address : the monument and public speech in American poetry / / Jake Adam York

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2005

ISBN

1-135-87768-8

1-280-22523-8

0-203-51849-7

0-203-49106-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Literary criticism and cultural theory

Disciplina

811/.509357

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Monuments in literature

Literature and society - United States

Public opinion in literature

Public spaces in literature

Architecture in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Getting in the way : the architecture of address -- The street or ferry-boat or public assembly : Whitman and the making of monument -- Crossing over Brooklyn Ferry : the bridge as monument -- In common : Lowell, Whitman, Crane, and the making of a mode -- In Lowell's wake, in Lowell's way : the monumental mode in the late twentieth century.

Sommario/riassunto

This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the moment.