Changing subjects : digressions in modern American poetry /

'Changing Subjects' contends that major American poets-such as Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Lyn Hejinian-transformed verse and even changed conceptions of modern subjectivity by exploiting an ordinary rhetorical device ubiquitous in spoken language: the digression.

Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Reddy, Srikanth
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Zusammenfassung:
'Changing Subjects' contends that major American poets-such as Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Lyn Hejinian-transformed verse and even changed conceptions of modern subjectivity by exploiting an ordinary rhetorical device ubiquitous in spoken language: the digression.
Umfang:
1 online resource (203 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-979108-2
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