The muse in the machine [[electronic resource] ] : essays on poetry and the anatomy of the body politic / / by T.R. Hummer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781613903321
• Autore: Hummer T. R
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Athens, : University of Georgia Press, c2006
• ISBN: 1-283-25311-9; 9786613253118; 0-8203-4278-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Collana: Life of poetry
• Disciplina: 811/.509358
• Soggetti: American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism; Politics and literature - United States - History - 20th century; Literature and society - United States - History - 20th century; Poetry - Authorship
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: An audience -- Laughed off : canon, kharakter, and the dismissal of Vachel Lindsay -- "Sen-sen," censorship, obscenity, secrecy : slapping the face of the body politic -- Inside the avalanche -- Ex machina : reading the mind of the South -- Revenge of the American leviathan -- "Christ, start again" : Robert Penn Warren, a poet of the South? -- The mechanical muse.