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Production, dissemination, and reception are well-known categories for examining poetry and its social life. A critic might investigate the historical and institutional origins of poets, their economic and writing situations and supports, and their social subject positions. All these have rippling impacts on careers, oeuvres, and reception.
4 paź 2019 · Departing from older periodizing narratives anchored in the shift from modernism to postmodernism, these books uncover the poetic histories that emerge in tandem with changes in economic structures and political regimes. Someone thinking about contemporary US poetry and capitalism might start with a few of the following questions.
The Cambridge History of American Poetry recognizes the existence of multiple traditions and a dramatically fluid canon, providing current perspectives on both major authors and a number of representative figures whose work embodies the diversity of America's democratic traditions.
10 sie 2023 · In The American Poet Laureate, her new sociological study of postwar poetry, Amy Paeth unravels the ties that have long subsisted between poets, the state, and private entities. Her stated intention is to enhance “our understanding of the role of poetry in civic life.”
27 lip 2018 · An extensive and heterogeneous archive, Reconstruction poetry provides a mostly unknown record of the competing social meanings of Reconstruction as they unfolded.
13 sty 2018 · In this chapter, we illustrate the political power of poetic expressions or, more broadly, of creative making (poiesis), at the level of society. Concretely, we will take the case study of a recent social movement in Mexico, YoSoy132, which uses poetic messages, among other art forms, to protest against the political establishment.
questions about the poetic career, debates and influences among poets, exami nation of traditions, adhesions and resistances to poetics, the construction of audiences, and the motivations to write.
