From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century
From Modernism to Postmodernism: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century By Jennifer Ashton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2006 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 0521855047 | PDF | 1 MB
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 2006 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 0521855047 | PDF | 1 MB
In this overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest linking contemporary poets with their modernist forebears, including Stein, Williams and Pound. She develops important ways to read modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well as their differences.