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- Title
The Fate of the Imaginary in Twentieth-century American Poetry.
- Authors
Altieri, Charles
- Abstract
Presents an overview of major American twentieth-century poetry by exploring how different epochs dealt with the pressures of the imaginary. Engagement of poets in a shared social enterprise and the significant differences among them in this regard; Tendency of the modernist poetry and its successor to resist basic strands of the culture it inherits; Grounds for rejecting kinds of criticism that impose cultural contexts on writers rather than elaborating how they project negotiating those contexts.
- Subjects
IMAGINATION in literature; AMERICAN poetry; MODERN poetry; CRITICISM; SOCIAL problems; POETRY (Literary form)
- Publication
American Literary History, 2005, Vol 17, Issue 1, p70
- ISSN
0896-7148
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1093/alh/aji003