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Behind the Lines investigates American war resistance poetry from the Second World War through the Iraq wars. Rather than simply chronicling the genre, Philip Metres argues that this poetry gets to the heart of who is authorized to speak about war and how it can be represented. As such, he explores a largely neglected area of scholarship: the poet's relationship to dissenting political movements and the nation.
War in literature. --- American poetry --- Anti-war poetry, American --- Protest poetry, American --- American literature --- American anti-war poetry --- American protest poetry --- History and criticism.
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War poetry, American. --- World War, 1939-1945 -- Poetry. --- War poetry, American --- World War, 1939-1945 --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- American Literature --- European War, 1939-1945 --- Second World War, 1939-1945 --- World War 2, 1939-1945 --- World War II, 1939-1945 --- World War Two, 1939-1945 --- WW II (World War, 1939-1945) --- WWII (World War, 1939-1945) --- History, Modern --- American war poetry --- American poetry --- Poetry
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Ten original essays by advanced scholars and well-published poets address the middle generation of American poets, including the familiar---Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, and John Berryman---and various important contemporaries: Delmore Schwartz, Theodore Roethke, Robert Hayden, and Lorine Niedecker. This was a famously troubled cohort of writers, for reasons both personal and cultural, and collectively their poems give us powerful, moving insights into American social life in the transforming decades of the 1940's through the 1960's.
Culture in literature. --- Community in literature. --- Literary form --- War poetry, American --- Literature and society --- World War, 1939-1945 --- American poetry --- Community in literature --- History --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- Communities in literature.
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War poetry, American --- Veterans' writings, American --- American poetry --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 --- American veterans' writings --- American literature --- History and criticism. --- Moral and ethical aspects. --- Literature and the war.
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Wallace Stevens the poet and Wallace Stevens the insurance executive: for more than one critical generation it has seemed as if these two men were unacquainted--that Stevens was a poet who existed only in the rarefied world of language. However, the idea that Stevens lived a double life, the author maintains, is misleading. This compelling book uncovers what Stevens liked to think of as his ""ordinary"" life, a life in which the demands of politics, economics, poetry, and everyday distractions coexisted, sometimes peacefully and sometimes not. Examining the full scope of Stevens's career (from
Literature and society --- Political poetry, American --- Social problems in literature. --- War poetry, American --- History --- History and criticism. --- Stevens, Wallace, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Political and social views. --- Problèmes sociaux dans la littérature --- Social problems in literature --- Sociale problemen in de literatuur --- Stevens, Wallace --- -Social problems in literature --- -Literature and society --- -Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- American war poetry --- American poetry --- American political poetry --- History and criticism --- Social aspects --- -Stevens, Wallace --- -Criticism and interpretation --- Political and social views --- Criticism and interpretation --- Political poetry [American ] --- War poetry [American ] --- Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955) --- Critique et interprétation
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Friendly Fire refers not merely to a tragic error of war, witnessed at least as much in Vietnam as in American wars prior and following - it also refers, metaphorically, to America's war with itself during the Vietnam years.
American national characteristics in literature --- Amerikaans volkskarakter in de literatuur --- Caractéristiques nationales américaines dans la littérature --- Groepsgevoel in de literatuur --- Group identity in literature --- Identité de groupe dans la littérature --- National characteristics [American ] in literature --- Volkskarakter [Amerikaans ] in de literatuur --- American literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- #KVHA:Vietnamoorlog --- #KVHA:Geschiedenis; Verenigde Staten --- #KVHA:American Studies --- 20th century --- History and criticism --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Literature and the war --- War stories [American ] --- War poetry [American ] --- National characteristics, American, in literature --- War poetry, American --- War stories, American --- National characteristics, American, in literature. --- Group identity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Literature and the conflict.
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What Americans refer to as the Vietnam War embraces much more than the conflict with North Vietnam. Milton J. Bates considers the other conflicts that Americans brought to that war: the divisions stemming from differences in race, class, sex, generation, and frontier ideology. In exploring the rich vein of writing and film that emerged from the Vietnam War era, he strikingly illuminates how these stories reflect American social crises of the period. Some material examined here is familiar, including the work of Michael Herr, Tim O'Brien, Philip Caputo, Susan Sontag, Francis Ford Coppola, and Oliver Stone. Other material is less well known--Neverlight by Donald Pfarrer and De Mojo Blues by A. R. Flowers, for example. Bates also draws upon an impressive range of secondary readings, from Freud and Marx to Geertz and Jameson. As the products of a culture in conflict, Vietnam memoirs, novels, films, plays, and poems embody a range of political perspectives, not only in their content but also in their structure and rhetoric. In his final chapter Bates outlines a "politico-poetics" of the war story as a genre. Here he gives special attention to our motives--from the deeply personal to the broadly cultural--for telling war stories.
American literature --- Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- Literature and society --- War stories, American --- War poetry, American --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Literature --- Literature and sociology --- Society and literature --- Sociology and literature --- Sociolinguistics --- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, in motion pictures --- Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 --- English literature --- Agrarians (Group of writers) --- History and criticism --- Literature and the war --- Motion pictures and the war --- History --- Social aspects --- 82:791.43 --- 82:791.43 Literatuur en film --- Literatuur en film --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- Motion pictures and the war. --- 20th century --- Motion pictures and the conflict --- United States --- War stories [American ] --- War poetry [American ]
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Chattarji discusses poems by non-combatants, such as Allen Ginsberg and Robert Bly, and veteran poets such as W.D. Ehrhart and Bruce Weigl. The text also includes poems by American women veterans and some Vietnamese poems in translation.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 --- American poetry --- War poetry, American --- American Literature --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- Vietnam Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 --- Vietnamese War, 1961-1975 --- Literature and the war --- History and criticism --- Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 --- Poésie de guerre américaine --- Poetry --- Poésie --- Histoire et critique --- History and criticism.
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Imagined Civil War: Popular Literature of the North and South, 1861-1865
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The work of Wallace Stevens has been read most widely as poetry concerned with poetry, and not with the world in which it was created; deemed utterly singular, it seems to resist being read as the record of a life and times. In this critical biography Alan Filreis presents a detailed challenge to this exceptionalist view as he traces two major periods of Stevens's career from 1939 to 1955, the war years and the postwar years. Portraying Stevens as someone whose alternation between cultural comprehension and ignorance was itself characteristically American, Filreis examines the poet's impulse to disguise and compress the very fact of his debt to the actual world. By actual world Stevens meant historical conditions, often in order to impugn his own interest in such externalities as the last resort of a man whose famous interiority made him feel desperately irrelevant. In light of events ranging from the U.S. entry into World War II to the Cold War, Filreis shows how Stevens was driven to make a "close approach to reality" in an effort to reconcile his poetic language with a cultural language. "Wallace Stevens and the Actual World is not only an impressive feat of historical recovery and analysis, but also a pleasure to read. It will be useful to anyone interested in the relationship between American politics and literature during World War II and the Cold War."--Milton J. Bates, Marquette UniversityOriginally published in 1991.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Reality in literature. --- History, Modern, in literature. --- War poetry, American --- World War, 1939-1945 --- Political poetry, American --- Politics and literature --- World War, 1939-1945, in literature --- History and criticism. --- Literature and the war. --- History --- Stevens, Wallace, --- Knowledge --- History. --- Political and social views. --- Poetry --- Stevens, Wallace --- anno 1900-1999
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