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Everyday Reading : Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America / / Mike Chasar



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Autore: Chasar Mike Visualizza persona
Titolo: Everyday Reading : Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America / / Mike Chasar Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Columbia University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (321 p.)
Disciplina: 811 .5209
Soggetto topico: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Poetics -- History -- 20th century
Poetry -- Public opinion -- History -- 20th century
Poetry -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Public opinion -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Poetry and Popular Culture -- 1. Saving Poetry -- 2. Invisible Audiences -- 3. The Business of Rhyming -- 4. The Spin Doctor -- 5. Popular Poetry and the Program Era -- Epilogue: In Memoriam -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, among other unconventional sources, Mike Chasar casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers. He shows how American poetry in the first half of the twentieth century and its reception helped set the stage for the dynamics of popular culture and mass media today. Poetry was then part and parcel of American popular culture, spreading rapidly as the consumer economy expanded and companies exploited its profit-making potential. Poetry also offered ordinary Americans creative, emotional, political, and intellectual modes of expression, whether through scrapbooking, participation in radio programs, or poetry contests. Reenvisioning the uses of twentieth-century poetry, Chasar provides a richer understanding of the innovations of modernist and avant-garde poets and the American reading public's sophisticated powers of feeling and perception.
Titolo autorizzato: Everyday Reading  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-231-53077-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826206703321
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