| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
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| Author: |
MikkelsenAnn Marie., |
| Place of Publication: |
New York |
| Published: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| Year of Publication: |
c2011 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. |
| Description: |
1 online resource (x, 244 p.) |
| Series: |
Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics |
| Subject: |
Pastoral poetry, American - History and criticism. - |
| Subject: |
American poetry - History and criticism. - 20th century - |
| Subject: |
Pragmatism in literature. - |
| Subject: |
LITERARY CRITICISM - Poetry. - |
| Online resource: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230117150 |
| Notes: |
Description based on print version record. |
| Summary: |
"In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden, Ann Marie Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political transformations of the past century"--Provided by publisher. |
| ISBN: |
9780230117150electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0230117155electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
hardback |
| ISBN: |
hardback |
| Content Note: |
Pastoral ideology and the pragmatic response Tramp culture and the cult of Pan: Robert Frost's Pastoral of class mobility "The truth about us": pastoral, pragmatism, and William Carlos Williams's Paterson "Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat!": Wallace Stevens's figurations of masculinity "The mooring of starting out": John Ashbery's pastoral origins Conclusion: late twentieth-century pastoral: Gertrude Stein, Lyn Hejinian, Lisa Robertson and the continuity of a mode. |