02852nam 2200553 450 991079561560332120200113080925.01-5017-5098-41-5017-5097-610.1515/9781501750991(CKB)5590000000001827(MiAaPQ)EBC6000128(DE-B1597)545457(DE-B1597)9781501750991(StDuBDS)EDZ0002535273(OCoLC)1137210359(PPN)257947116(EXLCZ)99559000000000182720210416e20212020 fy| 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierLyric as comedy the poetics of abjection in postwar America /Calista McRae[electronic resource]Ithaca :Cornell University Press,2021.1 online resource (233 pages)Cornell scholarship onlinePreviously issued in print: 2020.1-5017-5099-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Consider What That Feels Like -- Comedy in an Age of Close Reading: John Berryman's Dream Songs -- The Noise of Robert Lowell's Own Voice -- A. R. Ammons and Comic Badness -- Terrance Hayes: Floundering Interiors -- Coming to Terms with Our Self: Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, Monica Youn.A poet walks into a bar ... this book explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences. Lyric poems, the book finds, can be surprising sites of a shifting, unruly comedy, as seen in the work of John Berryman, Robert Lowell, A. R. Ammons, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, and Monica Youn. The book draws out the ways in which key American poets have struggled with persistent expectations about what expressive poetry can and should do. It reveals how the modern lyric, rather than bestowing order on the poet's thoughts and emotions, can center on impropriety and confusion, formal breakage and linguistic unruliness, and self-observation and self-staging.Cornell scholarship online.American poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismAmerican poetry21st centuryHistory and criticismHumor in literatureaesthetics of comedy, Shameful self, Humor in American poetry, comic theory.American poetryHistory and criticism.American poetryHistory and criticism.Humor in literature.811/.509McRae Calista1986-1504830StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910795615603321Lyric as comedy3734061UNINA