• Pastoral, pragmatism, and twentieth-century American poetry
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    [NT 47261] Author: MikkelsenAnn Marie.,
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: New York
    [NT 47263] Published: Palgrave Macmillan;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: c2011
    [NT 50960] Edition: 1st ed.
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (x, 244 p.)
    [NT 47298] Series: Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
    [NT 47266] Subject: Pastoral poetry, American - History and criticism. -
    [NT 47266] Subject: American poetry - History and criticism. - 20th century -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Pragmatism in literature. -
    [NT 47266] Subject: LITERARY CRITICISM - Poetry. -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230117150
    [NT 47265] Notes: Description based on print version record.
    [NT 51398] 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.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780230117150electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0230117155electronic bk.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: hardback
    [NT 50961] ISBN: hardback
    [NT 60779] 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.
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