Pastoral, pragmatism, and twentieth-century American poetry
By: Ann Marie Mikkelsen
Series: Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780230105836
Description: "In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden, Ann Marie 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."--
Table of contents: title: 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.