AuthorReddy, Srikanth, 1973-
TitleChanging subjects [electronic resource] : digressions in modern American poetry / Srikanth Reddy
Imprint New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199791026.001.0001
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SUMMARY

'Changing Subjects' contends that major American poets-such as Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Lyn Hejinian-transformed verse and even changed conceptions of modern subjectivity by exploiting an ordinary rhetorical device ubiquitous in spoken language: the digression


SUBJECT

  1. American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
  2. Moore
  3. Marianne
  4. 1887-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation
  5. Hejinian
  6. Lyn -- Criticism and interpretation
  7. Ashbery
  8. John
  9. 1927- -- Criticism and interpretation
  10. Whitman
  11. Walt
  12. 1819-1892 -- Influence
  13. Digression (Rhetoric) in literature
  14. Poetics