Lyric as comedy : the poetics of abjection in postwar America / / Calista McRae [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: McRae Calista <1986->
• Pubblicazione: Ithaca : , : Cornell University Press, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 pages)
• Disciplina: 811/.509
• Soggetto topico: American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism; American poetry - 21st century - History and criticism; Humor in literature
• Soggetto non controllato: aesthetics of comedy, Shameful self, Humor in American poetry, comic theory
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2020.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Lyric as comedy
• ISBN: 1-5017-5098-4; 1-5017-5097-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910795615603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cornell scholarship online.