Robert Lowell In Context

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Thomas Austenfeld, Grzegorz Kość, Grzegorz Kość, Thomas (University of Fribourg) Austenfeld, Grzegorz (University of Warsaw) Kosc, Grzegorz Kośc, Grzegorz Kosc, Ko&

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Robert Lowell was one of the most influential American poets of the 20th century. This volume explores the various contexts of Lowell's life and work and evaluates his oeuvre from new perspectives. Individual chapters address his relation to the South, his religious evolution, aspects of his marriages and private life, his bipolar disorder seen through new theories of mental illness, his work as a letter writer and a connoisseur of art and photography. The book also introduces new parameters for a contemporary study of Lowell, commenting on current debates about race and privilege, feminism, ecoconsciousness, his engagement with the natural environment as well as his friendships with Randall Jarrell and Robert Penn Warren.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-04-04
Mått159 x 235 x 26 mm
Vikt660 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiterature in Context
Antal sidor338
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009465717

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Thomas Austenfeld is Professor of American Literature at the University of Fribourg/Switzerland. He is the author of American Women Writers and the Nazis: Ethics and Politics in Boyle, Porter, Stafford, and Hellman (2001), the editor of Kay Boyle for the Twenty-First Century (2008), of Critical Insights: Barbara Kingsolver (2010), of Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools: New Interpretations and Transatlantic Contexts (2015), and of Robert Lowell in a New Century (2019). Grzegorz Kosc is Associate Professor of English and the director of the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw. He is the author of Robert Lowell: Uncomfortable Epigone of the Grands Maîtres and Robert Frost's Political Body. He has published in such journals as a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Partial Answers, and College Literature. Most recently, he has coedited, with Steven G. Axelrod, Robert Lowell's Memoirs (2022).

Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction. Robert Lowell in Context; Part I. Places: 1. Boston Grzegorz Kosc; 2. The American south Joseph Kuhn; 3. New York Jeffrey Gray; 4. England and Ireland Tony Roberts; Part II. American Politics, American Wars: 5. War Walt Hunter; 6. US presidency Alex Runchman; 7. Ecoconsciousness Adam Beardsworth; Part III. Some Literary Models: 8. Classics John Talbot; 9. Melville Stephen Matterson; 10. Plaints Meg Tyler; Part IV. Contemporaries: Modernists and Beyond: 11. T. S. Eliot Stephen Regan; 12. Ezra pound Richard Parker; 13. John Berryman Philip Coleman; 14. Warren and Jarrell Joan Romano Shifflett; 15. Elizabeth Bishop Thomas Travisano; Part V. Life, Illness, and the Arts: 16. Religion Thomas Austenfeld; 17. Marriage Lucy Collins; 18. Desensationalizing madness Astrid Franke; 19. Photography Anita Helle; 20. Painting Diederik Oostdijk; Part VI. Reputation and New Contexts: 21. Letters Calista McRae; 22. Whiteness Nikki Skillman; 23. Appropriation Hannah Baker Saltmarsh; 24. 'Raw' poets Andrew Epstein; 25. Lowell's influence Steven Gould Axelrod; 26. Language and post-language poets Kacper Bartczak; Further reading; Index.

'On the whole Robert Lowell in Context offers a beneficial balance of informed distinction and reassessment. These essays refuse to flatten their subject or dismiss him as an outmoded ivory avatar, while simultaneously highlighting the ways in which precisely this aspect - his centrality and access to the American world of arts and culture - gave him a rich, evolving means of commentating on the state of the republic in his lifetime.' Robert Lowell, The Times Literary Supplement