Lyric As Comedy: The Poetics of Abjection in Postwar America - Couverture rigide

McRae, Calista

 
9781501750977: Lyric As Comedy: The Poetics of Abjection in Postwar America
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ISBN 10 : 1501750976 ISBN 13 : 9781501750977
Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2020

Synopsis

A poet walks into a bar... In Lyric as Comedy, Calista McRae explores the unexpected comic opportunities within recent American poems about deeply personal, often embarrassing, experiences. Lyric poems, she finds, can be surprising sites of a shifting, unruly comedy, as seen in the work of John Berryman, Robert Lowell, A. R. Ammons, Terrance Hayes, Morgan Parker, Natalie Shapero, and Monica Youn.

Lyric as Comedy draws out the ways in which key American poets have struggled with persistent expectations about what expressive poetry can and should do. McRae reveals how the modern lyric, rather than bestowing order on the poet's thoughts and emotions, can center on impropriety and confusion, formal breakage and linguistic unruliness, and self-observation and self-staging.

The close readings in Lyric as Comedy also provide new insight into the theory and aesthetics of comedy, taking in the indirect, glancing comic affordances of poetry. In doing so, McRae captures varieties of humor that do not align with traditional terms, centering abjection and pleasure as facets of contemporary lyric practice.

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À propos de l'auteur

Calista McRae is Assistant Professor of English at the New Jersey Institute of Technology.

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Éditeur
Cornell University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1501750976
ISBN 13 
9781501750977
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
234
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