Changing subjects: digressions in modern american poetry
Auteur :
Reddy, Srikanth
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press Inc
ISBN :
9780199791026
Date de publication :
26 juil. 2012
Dimensions :
15,5 x 23,6 x 2,0 cm
Poids :
408 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.