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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... decision to explore the uses of poetry, here I want to note the indelible influence of my mother, Pearl W. Rubin. In her passion for literary culture, her modernist sensibility, and her approach to life, she has viii TM Acknowledgments.
... Cultural History (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998), and in “'They Flash Upon That Inward Eye': Poetry Recitation and American Readers,” Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, vol. 160, part 2 ... CULTURE Acknowledgments ̃ ix.
... culture.” That is, their common goal has been to situate print at the intersection of the material conditions, social structures, and cultural values that give the written word its forms and meanings.2 Because of my commitment, as a ...
... cultural presence that publishers' sales figures do not measure: in school, for instance, everyone read poems every year ... Culture, I had examined such activities for the interwar years.4 Pushing the narrative back a decade or two led ...
... culture than we have previously possessed. I also depart from standard literary history in the periodization I have adopted. Although it ranges backwards and forwards in order to accommodate topics and themes with earlier origins or ...
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 |