The Edge of Modernism : American Poetry and the Traumatic Past / / Walter Kalaidjian.
In The Edge of Modernism, Walter Kalaidjian explores American poetry on genocide, the Holocaust, and total war as well as on postwar social antagonisms, racial oppression, and domestic violence. By asking what it means for traumatic memory to have agency in the American verse tradition, Kalaidjian c...
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Kalaidjian, Walter B., 1952- The Edge of Modernism American Poetry and the Traumatic Past / Walter Kalaidjian. Johns Hopkins University Press 2006 Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. ©2006. 1 online resource (x, 239 p. :) ill. ; text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-229) and index. Description based on print version record. In The Edge of Modernism, Walter Kalaidjian explores American poetry on genocide, the Holocaust, and total war as well as on postwar social antagonisms, racial oppression, and domestic violence. By asking what it means for traumatic memory to have agency in the American verse tradition, Kalaidjian creates an original historical account of how American poets became witnesses, often unconsciously, to modern extremity. Combining psychoanalytic theory and cultural studies, this intense, sweeping account of modern poetics analyzes the ways in which literary form gives testimony to the trauma of twentieth-century history. Through close readings of well-known and less familiar poets—among them Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, Edwin Rolfe, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Peter Balakian, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Anne Sexton, and Anthony Hecht—Kalaidjian discerns the latent "edge" of modern trauma as it cuts through the literary representations, themes, and formal techniques of twentieth-century American poetics. In this way, The Edge of Modernism advances an innovative and dynamic model of modern periodization. English Slavery in literature. History in literature. Cold War in literature. Genocide in literature. Modernism (Literature) United States. Anti-communist movements in literature. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature. Literature and history United States History 20th century. American poetry 20th century History and criticism. Electronic books. Literary studies: poetry & poets 1-4214-2939-X 1-4214-2774-5 |
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