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Record Nr.

UNINA9910827309303321

Autore

Smith Dale <1967->

Titolo

Poets beyond the barricade : rhetoric, citizenship, and dissent after 1960 / / Dale M. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8173-8592-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Rhetoric, culture, and social critique

Disciplina

811/.54093587392

Soggetti

Protest poetry, American - History and criticism

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

American poetry - 21st century - History and criticism

Literature and society - United States

Politics and literature - United States

War and literature - United States

Dissenters - United States

Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature

Persuasion (Psychology) in literature

Poets, American - 20th century - Political and social views

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

"Dear Gloucester" -- Rhetorics of "advantage" and "pure persuasion" : Robert Duncan, Denise Levertov, and Vietnam -- Public witness/public mind : media, citizenship, and dissent in the poetry of Lorenzo Thomas and Edward Dorn -- Poets against war -- Afterword : poetry as a modality of rhetoric in modernist inquiry.

Sommario/riassunto

Since the cultural conflicts over the Vietnam War and civil rights protests, poets and poetry have consistently raised questions surrounding public address, social relations, friction between global policies and democratic institutions, and the interpretation of political events and ideas. In Poets Beyond the Barricade: Rhetoric, Citizenship, and Dissent after 1960, Dale Smith makes meaningful links among rhetoric, literature, and cultural studies, illustrating how poetry and discussions of it shaped public consciousness from the socially volatile



era of the 1960's...