Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in AmericaListen to a short interview with Joan Shelley RubinHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane |
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... Robert Gross, John Hench, Barbara Hochman, David Hollinger, John W. Hyland, Jr., Carl Kaestle, Meredith McGill, Brenda Meehan, David Nord, Lewis Perry, Morris Pierce, Janice Radway, Cynthia Rubin, Linda Rubin, Michael Schudson, Barbara ...
The Uses of Poetry in America Joan Shelley Rubin. Robert Pinsky, Maggie Dietz, and Rosemary Ellis of the “Favorite Poem Project” generously made the project's database available to me. I greatly appreciate their encouragement and ...
... L. Stidger 321 Sunday worship at Camp Kehonka 327 The lure of the “open” 343 John Burroughs at “Slabsides” 357 Robert Pinsky at a “Favorite Poem Project” event 386 SONGS of OURSELVES Introduction n My interest in the subject.
... such subjects as authorship, access to knowledge, the circulation of texts, and the re- sponses of readers in various times and places. Much of the early work in the field came from Europeanists like Robert Darnton, 2 TM Songs of Ourselves.
... Robert Darnton, Roger Chartier, Carlo Ginzberg, and Natalie Zemon Davis, whose pioneering investigations of bookselling, cheap print, reading communities, and the like demonstrated the ways in which l'histoire du livre could reveal the ...
Contents
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Celebrity and Cipher | 75 |
Alien and Intimate | 92 |
Listen My Children Modes of Poetry Reading in American Schools | 107 |
I Am an American Poetry and Civic Ideals | 165 |
Grow Old Along with Me Poetry and Emotions among Family and Friends | 242 |
Gods in His Heaven Religious Uses of Verse | 287 |
Lovely as a Tree Reading and Seeing OutofDoors | 336 |
Favorite Poems and Contemporary Readers | 381 |
Notes | 407 |
Index | 451 |