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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... specific historical settings a third aspect of literature's power: the emotional work it has performed for the readers in whose lives it has been a vital presence. Another of my goals is to document and elaborate in the American context ...
... specific activities, personal and impersonal, that construct a work's physical characteristics and content, affect its marketing and accessibility, and color the responses of readers. Darnton's famous construct of a “communications ...
... specific cultural forms and particular social groups” is to arrive at a fuller appreciation of the agency of ordinary people than the concept of an autonomous working- class culture permits. I should add that because of the available ...
... specific sites for verse reading in the United States between 1880 and the mid-1950s. In Part II, “Poetry in Place and Practice,” my emphasis is on the enduring values and beliefs that prevailed throughout that period at the sites where ...
... specific American context in which it developed, relying, for one thing, on the antebellum American's literal concern with enhancing the power of sight. The construct of the poet-prophet also met Emerson's vocational requirements—his ...
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 |