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Autore |
Forbes Deborah |
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Sincerity's shadow [[electronic resource] ] : self-consciousness in British romantic and mid-twentieth-century American poetry / / Deborah Forbes |
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Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2004 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 244 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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English poetry - 19th century - History and criticism |
Self-consciousness (Awareness) in literature |
American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism |
Postmodernism (Literature) - English-speaking countries |
Romanticism - English-speaking countries |
Sincerity in literature |
Self in literature |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-239) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction 1. The Personal Universal Sincerity as Integrity in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Rich 2. Before and After Sincerity as Form in the Poetry of Wordsworth, Lowell, Rich, and Plath 3. Sincerity and the Staged Confession The Monologues of Browning, Eliot, Berryman, and Plath 4. The Drama of Breakdown and the Breakdown of Drama The Charismatic Poetry of Byron and Sexton 5. Agnostic Sincerity The Poet as Observer in the Work of Keats, Bishop, and Merrill Conclusion Notes Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In essays comparing poets as seemingly different in context and temperament as Wordsworth and Adrienne Rich, Lord Byron and Anne Sexton, John Keats and Elizabeth Bishop, Deborah Forbes reveals unexpected convergences of poetic strategy. |
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