Songs of Ourselves : : The Uses of Poetry in America / / Joan Shelley Rubin.
In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. By blurring the boundaries between "high" and "popular" po...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009] ©2007 |
سنة النشر: | 2009 |
اللغة: | English |
الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | |
وصف مادي: | 1 online resource |
الوسوم: |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- PART I. THE POET IN AMERICAN CULTURE -- PART II. POETRY IN PLACE AND PRACTICE -- Coda "Favorite" Poems and Contemporary Readers -- Notes -- Index |
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الملخص: | In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. By blurring the boundaries between "high" and "popular" poetry as well as between modern and traditional, it creates a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves. |
التنسيق: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ردمك: | 9780674042964 9783110442205 9783110459517 9783110662566 |
DOI: | 10.4159/9780674042964 |
وصول: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Joan Shelley Rubin. |