Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry [electronic resource] /
Mikkelsen, A.author.
In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden , Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political transformations of the past century.
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction * Pastoral Ideology and the Pragmatic Response * Tramp Culture and the Cult of Pan: Robert Frost's Pastoral of Class Mobility * The Truth About Us" : Pastoral, Pragmatism, and William Carlos Williams's Paterson * Fat! Fat! Fat! Fat!" : Wallace Stevens's Figurations of Masculinity * The Mooring of Starting Out" : John Ashbery's Pastoral Origins * American Pastoral Futures.
In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden , Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political transformations of the past century.
America-Literatures.
Poetry.
Pragmatism.
North American Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Pragmatism.