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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... social history of 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 ...
... social context of American thought and paid some attention to popular figures, Spiller and his colleagues followed a mainly linear progression from romanticism to realism (with its regional variants) to the “new poetry” and its ...
... social history of reading differs from projects that, however open to lost traditions, remain organized around authors and movements.6 Such surveys and anthologies generally register the results of literary production. Even in their ...
... social act. It is social because texts are socially produced through the mediations just described, but also because readers employ texts for social purposes. As Elizabeth Long has stated, the “ideology of the solitary reader ...
... social and cultural space in which many texts seem to have circulated widely.” The status of poetry in the United States after 1880 is a good case in point. Although literary critics elevated the genre to a high station among the arts ...
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 |