Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American LeftPsychology Press, 2001 - 270 páginas Revolutionary Memory is the most important book yet to be published about the vital tradition of leftwing American Poetry. As Cary Nelson shows, it is not only our image of the past but also our sense of the present and future that changes when we recover these revolutionary memories. Making a forceful case for political poetry as poetry, Nelson brings to bear his extraordinary knowledge of American poets, radical movements, and social struggles in order to bring out an undervalued strength in a literature often left at the canon's edge. Focused in part of the red decade of the 1930s, Revolutionary Memory revitalizes biographical criticism for writers on the margin and shows us for the first time how progressive poets fused their work into a powerful chorus of political voices. Richly detailed and beautifully illustrated with period engravings and woodcuts, Revolutionary Memory brings that chorus dramatically to life and set a cultural agenda for future work. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Modern Poems We Have Wanted to Forget | 11 |
The Politics of Revolutionary Memory | 141 |
How Much for Spain? | 181 |
Notes | 245 |
263 | |
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Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left Cary Nelson Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left Cary Nelson Vista previa limitada - 2013 |
Revolutionary Memory: Recovering the Poetry of the American Left Cary Nelson Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
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