Changing subjects [electronic resource] : digressions in modern American poetry /
by Reddy, Srikanth.
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BookPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource.ISBN: 9780199950287 (ebook) :.Subject(s): American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation | Hejinian, Lyn -- Criticism and interpretation | Ashbery, John, 1927- -- Criticism and interpretation | Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 -- Influence | Digression (Rhetoric) in literature | PoeticsOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online 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.
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'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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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