Who Killed American Poetry?

Released on by Karen L. Kilcup
preview-18

  • Who Killed American Poetry? Book Detail

  • Author : Karen L. Kilcup
  • Release Date : 2019-10-18
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 426
  • ISBN 13 : 0472131559
  • File Size : 10,10 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Who Killed American Poetry? by Karen L. Kilcup PDF Summary

Book Description: Throughout the 19th century, American poetry was a profoundly populist literary form. It circulated in New England magazines and Southern newspapers; it was read aloud in taverns, homes, and schools across the country. Antebellum reviewers envisioned poetry as the touchstone democratic genre, and their Civil War–era counterparts celebrated its motivating power, singing poems on battlefields. Following the war, however, as criticism grew more professionalized and American literature emerged as an academic subject, reviewers increasingly elevated difficult, dispassionate writing and elite readers over their supposedly common counterparts, thereby separating “authentic” poetry for intellectuals from “popular” poetry for everyone else.\ Conceptually and methodologically unique among studies of 19th-century American poetry, Who Killed American Poetry? not only charts changing attitudes toward American poetry, but also applies these ideas to the work of representative individual poets. Closely analyzing hundreds of reviews and critical essays, Karen L. Kilcup tracks the century’s developing aesthetic standards and highlights the different criteria reviewers used to assess poetry based on poets’ class, gender, ethnicity, and location. She shows that, as early as the 1820s, critics began to marginalize some kinds of emotional American poetry, a shift many scholars have attributed primarily to the late-century emergence of affectively restrained modernist ideals. Mapping this literary critical history enables us to more readily apprehend poetry’s status in American culture—both in the past and present—and encourages us to scrutinize the standards of academic criticism that underwrite contemporary aesthetics and continue to constrain poetry’s appeal. Who American Killed Poetry? enlarges our understanding of American culture over the past two hundred years and will interest scholars in literary studies, historical poetics, American studies, gender studies, canon criticism, genre studies, the history of criticism, and affect studies. It will also appeal to poetry readers and those who enjoy reading about American cultural history.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Who Killed American Poetry? books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Who Killed American Poetry?

Who Killed American Poetry?

File Size : 77,77 MB
Total View : 8589 Views
DOWNLOAD

Throughout the 19th century, American poetry was a profoundly populist literary form. It circulated in New England magazines and Southern newspapers; it was rea

Fallen Forests

Fallen Forests

File Size : 30,30 MB
Total View : 2767 Views
DOWNLOAD

In 1844, Lydia Sigourney asserted, "Man's warfare on the trees is terrible." Like Sigourney many American women of her day engaged with such issues as sustainab

Red Appetite

Red Appetite

File Size : 15,15 MB
Total View : 8009 Views
DOWNLOAD

In this beautifully crafted collection of poems, Karen Kilcup writes about how isolation due to covid brought nature to our doors, examining human kindness and

Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers

Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers

File Size : 20,20 MB
Total View : 6563 Views
DOWNLOAD

Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: An Anthology is a multicultural, multigenre collection celebrating the quality and diversity of nineteenth century Am