LEADER 03789nam 22006015 450 001 9910522557103321 005 20230810174455.0 010 $a9783030931155$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030931148 010 $z3030931145 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-93115-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6882573 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6882573 035 $a(CKB)21069025400041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-93115-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921069025400041 100 $a20220202d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aConfessional Poetry in the Cold War $eThe Poetics of Doublespeak /$fby Adam Beardsworth 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,$x2634-5803 311 08$aPrint version: Beardsworth, Adam. Confessional poetry in the Cold War. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 9783030931148 (OCoLC)1295141964 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1. Introduction: The Poetics of Doublespeak -- 2. ?Lack-Land Atoms Split Apart?: Robert Lowell?s Atomic Confessions -- 3. The Poetics of Double-Talk: John Berryman?s Dream Songs as Cold War Testimonials -- 4. Fastening a New Skin: Anne Sexton, Self-Help, and the Illness of Responsibility -- 5. Toward a Poetics of Terror: Sylvia Plath and the Instant of Death -- 6. New Critical Conspiracy Theory: Randall Jarrell and the Poetics of Dissent. 330 $aThis book explores how confessional poets in the 1950s and 1960s US responded to a Cold War political climate that used the threat of nuclear disaster and communist infiltration as affective tools for the management of public life. In an era that witnessed the state-sanctioned repression of civil liberties, poets such as Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and Randall Jarrell adopted what has often been considered a politically benign confessional style. Although confessional writers have been criticized for emphasizing private turmoil in an era of public crisis, examining their work in relation to the political and affective environment of the Cold War US demonstrates their unique ability to express dissent while averting surveillance. For these poets, writing the fear and anxiety of life in the bomb?s shadow was a form of poetic doublespeak that critiqued the impact of an affective Cold War politics without naming names. Adam Beardsworth is a professor of English at Memorial University?s Grenfell Campus, Canada, where he teaches contemporary literature and critical theory. He is the author of numerous articles and chapters on US and Canadian poetry and is a past-president of the Canadian Association for American Studies. He lives in Steady Brook, Newfoundland. 410 0$aAmerican Literature Readings in the 21st Century,$x2634-5803 606 $aPoetry 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLiterature, Modern$x20th century 606 $aPoetry and Poetics 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aTwentieth-Century Literature 615 0$aPoetry. 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern$x20th century. 615 14$aPoetry and Poetics. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aTwentieth-Century Literature. 676 $a811.509 676 $a811.5409 700 $aBeardsworth$b Adam$01082095 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910522557103321 996 $aConfessional Poetry in the Cold War$92597010 997 $aUNINA