From Modernism to Postmodernism
Subtitle: American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9780521855044
Subjects: Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; Modernism (Literature); History and criticism; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; USA; Postmodernism (Literature); Literary Criticism & Collections / American; American poetry; American - General; 20th century; United States
First sentence: In The Geographical History of America, or The Relation of Human Nature to the Human Mind (1937), Gertrude Stein describes the effect of flying over the United States and looking at the land from above, which she distinguishes from what happens when you "climb on the land": When you climb on the land high human nature knows because by remembering it has been a dangerous thing to go higher and higher on the land which is where human nature was but now in an aeroplane human nature is nothing remembering is nothing no matter how many have been killed from up there it is not anything that is a memory. . .