Southern crossings : poetry, memory, and the transcultural South / / Daniel Cross Turner

• Autore: Turner Daniel Cross
• Pubblicazione: Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2012
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (289 p.)
• Disciplina: 811/.5409975
• Soggetto topico: American poetry - Southern States - History and criticism
• Soggetto geografico: Southern States In literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-243) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Poetic Historiophoty: Filmic Memory in Robert Penn Warren's Audubon: A Vision; 2. Returning the "Undying Cry of the Void": The Changing Condition of Primal Memory in James Dickey's Poetry; 3. Many Returns: Forms of Nostalgia in the Poetry of the Contemporary South; 4. Lost Highways and Ethereal Landscapes: Cartographic Memory in the Poetry of Charles Wright; 5. Ghostwriting the Claims of the Dead: Traumatic Memory in Yusef Komunyakaa's Verse; 6. Transouthern Hybridities: The Poetics of Countermemory; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "Daniel Cross Turner has made a key contribution to the critical study and appreciation of the diverse field of contemporary Southern poetics. "Southern Crossings" crosses a gulf in contemporary poetry criticism while using the idea-or ideas, many and contrary-of "Southernness" to appraise poetries created from the profuse, tangled histories of the region. Turner's close readings are dynamic, even lyrical. He offers a new understanding of rhythm's central place in contemporary poetry while considering the work of fifteen poets. Through his focus on varied yet interwoven forms o
• Titolo autorizzato: Southern crossings
• ISBN: 9786613854711; 1-57233-894-6; 1-283-54226-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822472903321
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