{"product_id":"the-cambridge-history-of-american-literature-volume-8-poetry-and-criticism-1940-1995-hardback-9780521497336","title":"The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 8, Poetry and Criticism, 1940–1995 (Hardback) 9780521497336","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 8, Poetry and Criticism, 1940–1995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis volume offers a crucial summary of the development of criticism and the history of poetry in the mid to late twentieth century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSacvan Bercovitch (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521497336, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 29 March 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e576 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 16.1 x 3.8 cm, 1.038 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'… vast and eminently readable survey of twentieth century American literature …'. Use of English\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Cambridge History of American Literature addresses the broad spectrum of new and established directions in all branches of American writing, and includes the work of scholars and critics who have shaped, and who continue to shape, what has become a major area of literary scholarship. The authors span three decades of achievement in Americanist literary criticism, thereby speaking for the continuities as well as the disruptions sustained between generations of scholarship. Generously proportioned narratives permit a broader vision of American literary history than has previously been possible, allowing the implicit voice of traditional criticism to join forces with the diversity of interests that characterise contemporary literary studies. Volume VIII, concerned with works of poetry and criticism written between 1940 and the present, brings together two different sets of materials and narrative forms, the aesthetic and the institutional. Discarding the traditional synoptic overview of major figures, von Hallberg, Graff, and Carton settle in favour of a history from the inside - a history of interstices and relations, equal to the task of considering the contexts of art, power, and criticism in which it is set.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Poetry, Politics, and Intellectuals Robert Von Hallberg: 1. The place of poetry in the Culture, 1945–1950\u003cbr\u003e 2. Politics\u003cbr\u003e 3. Rear-guards\u003cbr\u003e 4. Avant-gardes\u003cbr\u003e 5. Authenticity\u003cbr\u003e 6. Translation\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: the place of poets 1995\u003cbr\u003e Appendix I: Biographies of Poets\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Criticism Since 1940 Evan Carton and Gerald Graff: Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. Politics and American criticism\u003cbr\u003e 2. The emergence of academic criticism\u003cbr\u003e 3. The nationalising of the new criticism\u003cbr\u003e 4. The canon, the academy, and gender\u003cbr\u003e 5. Deconstruction and post-structuralism\u003cbr\u003e 6. From textuality to materiality\u003cbr\u003e 7. Cultural and historical studies\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: academic criticism and its discontents\u003cbr\u003e Appendix II: Biographies of critics\u003cbr\u003e Chronology 1940–1945\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: poetry \u0026amp; poets\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20poetry%20\u0026amp;%20poets%20%5BDSC%5D%22\"\u003eDSC\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46004180910360,"sku":"9780521497336","price":127.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521497336i_d54b6cea-fc54-4d14-ad00-e81a7dfb4d45.jpg?v=1691383126","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-history-of-american-literature-volume-8-poetry-and-criticism-1940-1995-hardback-9780521497336","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}