Humor in Modern American Poetry

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Modern poetry, at least according to the current consensus, is difficult and often depressing. But as Humor in Modern American Poetry shows, modern poetry is full of humorous moments, from comic verse published in popular magazines to the absurd juxtapositions of The Cantos. The essays in this collection show that humor is as essential to the serious work of William Carlos Williams as it is to the light verse of Phyllis McGinley. For the writers in this volume, the point of humor is not to provide “comic relief,” a brief counterpoint to the poem’s more serious themes; humor is central to the poems’ projects. These poets use humor to claim their own poetic authority; to re-define literary tradition; to show what audience they are writing for; to make political attacks; and, perhaps most surprisingly, to promote sympathy among their readers. The essays in this book include single-author studies, discussions of literary circles, and theories of form. Taken together, they help to begin a new conversation about modernist poetry, one that treats its lighthearted moments not as decorative but as substantive. Humor defines groups and marks social boundaries, but it also leads us to transgress those boundaries; it forges ties between the writer and the reader, blurs the line between public and private, and becomes a spur to self-awareness.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-11-16
Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt494 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501334733

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Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Theories of Humor and Modern PoetryRachel Trousdale (Framingham State University, USA) 1. Humor and Authority in Pound’s CantosJoel Elliot Slotkin (Towson University, USA)2. Cummings' Erotic HumorWilliam Solomon (SUNY Buffalo, USA)3. Emotional Comedies: Lorine Niedecker’s “For Paul” Marta Figlerowicz (Yale University, USA) 4. Laughing in the Gallery: Melvin Tolson’s Refusal to HushLena Hill (University of Iowa, USA)5. Poetry and Good Humour: Marianne Moore and Elizabeth BishopHugh Haughton (University of York, UK)6. Convention and Mysticism: Dickinson, Hardy, WilliamsAlan Shapiro (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA) 7. Phyllis McGinley: Defending Housewifery with a LaughMegan Leroy (Independent Scholar, USA) 8. Tell Me the Truth: Humor, Love, and Community in Auden’s Late-Thirties PoetryRachel Trousdale (Framingham State University, USA) 9. Merrill, Comedy, ConversationStephen Burt (Harvard University, USA) 10. “This Comic Version of Myself”: Humor and Autobiography in John Ashbery’s Poetry and ProseKarin Roffman (West Point, USA) BibliographyIndex