The social life of poetry
Subtitle: Appalachia, race, and radical modernism
By: Chris Green.
Series: Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230610934
Subjects: American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; American poetry -- Appalachian Region -- History and criticism; European Americans -- Race identity; Whites -- Race identity -- United States; Cultural pluralism -- United States -- History; Modernism (Literature) -- United States; United States -- Race relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Appalachia, race, and pluralism; title: Evangelizing an Anglo equality (1883-1908); title: New York City's cultural pluralists (1906-1930); title: Reactionary regionalism versus critical quarterlies (1925-1945); title: The social life of poetry; title: Racing the land with Jesse Stuart's Man with a bull tongue plow; title: "Authentic folk feeling" in James Still's Hounds on the mountain; title: Rebinding "The book of the dead" to Muriel Rukeyser's U.S. 1; title: The tight rope of democracy and Don West's Clods of southern earth.