1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971823903321

Autore

Paul Sherman

Titolo

Hewing to experience : essays and reviews on recent American poetry and poetics, nature and culture / / Sherman Paul

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, 1989

ISBN

9781587291807

1587291800

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (410 p.)

Disciplina

811/.509

811.509

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Poetics - History - 20th century

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.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Insistences -- pt. 2. Emerson -- pt. 3. William Carlos Williams -- pt. 4. H.D. -- pt. 5. Hart Crane -- pt. 6. Charles Olson -- pt. 7. Robert Creeley -- pt. 8. The correspondence of Charles Olson and Robert Creeley  -- pt. 9. Gary Snyder and Wendell Berry -- pt. 10. Barry Lopez.

Sommario/riassunto

Hewing to Experience charts Sherman Paul's course of coming to know William Carlos Williams, Hart Crane, Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Gary Snyder and the critical scholarship devoted to them as it provides an assessment of recent criticism. The initial section, on criticism and poetry, sets out many of the insistences that give this valuable collection of essays and reviews its coherence. Considered are criticism, poetics, poetry and old age, ethnopoetics, the gift exchange of imagination, and the recent and controversial enterprise of canon formation.The fina



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963361403321

Autore

Witham Nick

Titolo

The cultural left and the Reagan era : U.S. protest and Central American Revolution / / by Nick Witham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2015

ISBN

9780857738394

0857738399

9780755620135

0755620135

9780857726988

0857726986

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 pages)

Collana

Library of modern American history

Soggetti

Liberalism - United States

Protest movements - United States

Right and left (Political science) - United States

Biography: historical, political & military

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Rethinking the Cultural Left in the Reagan Era Section I : Intellectual Culture -- 1. Walter LaFeber, Gabriel Kolko and the Activist History of American Empire -- 2. Verso Books and Transnational Solidarity Section II : Press Culture -- 3. The Nation and Nicaragua -- 4. The Guardian, the Solidarity Movement and El Salvador Section III -- 5. Anti-Interventionist Cinema at Hollywood's Margins -- 6. International Feminism, Documentary Filmmaking and Central American Revolutionary Struggle -- Conclusion ; Rememebering Central America Activism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The Reagan era is usually seen as an era of unheralded prosperity, and as a high-watermark of Republican success. President Ronald Reagan's belief in "Reaganomics", his media-friendly sound-bites and "can do" personality have come to define the era. However, this was also a time of domestic protest and unrest. Under Reagan the US was directly



involved in the revolutions which were sweeping the Central Americas- El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala -and in Nicaragua Reagan armed the Contras who fought the Sandinistas. This book seeks to show how the left within the US reacted and protested against these events. The Nation, Verso Books and the Guardian exploded in popularity, riding high on the back of popular anti-interventionist sentiment in America, while the film-maker Oliver Stone led a group of directors making films with a radical left-wing message. The author shows how the1980s in America were a formative cultural period for the anti-Reaganites as well as the Reaganites, and in doing so charts a new history."--Bloomsbury Publishing.