Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry
[Book]
/ Ann Marie Mikkelsen
1st ed.
New York
: Palgrave Macmillan
, 2011.
x, 244 p.
(Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics)
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"In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden, Ann Marie Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political transformations of the past century."--Provided by publisher.
Pastoral ideology and the pragmatic response -- Tramp culture and the cult of Pan: Robert Frost's Pastoral of class mobility -- "The truth about us": pastoral, pragmatism, and William Carlos Williams's Paterson -- "Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat!": Wallace Stevens's figurations of masculinity -- "The mooring of starting out": John Ashbery's pastoral origins -- Conclusion: late twentieth-century pastoral: Gertrude Stein, Lyn Hejinian, Lisa Robertson and the continuity of a mode.
Pastoral poetry, American -- History and criticism
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism