TY - GEN T1 - History, memory, and the literary left : modern American poetry, 1935-1968 T2 - Contemporary North American poetry series. A1 - Lowney, John, 1957- LA - English PP - Iowa City PB - University of Iowa Press YR - 2006 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn658122105 AB - "In this nuanced revisionist history of modern American poetry, John Lowney investigates the Depression era's impact on late modernist American poetry from the socioeconomic crisis of the 1930s through the emergence of the new social movements of the 1960s. Informed by an ongoing scholarly reconsideration of 1930s American culture and concentrating on Left writers whose historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War, Lowney articulates the Left's challenges to national collective memory and redefines the importance of late modernism in American literary history. The late modernist writers Lowney studies most closely-Muriel Rukeyser, Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Thomas McGrath, and George Oppen-are not all customarily associated with the 1930s, nor are they commonly seen as literary peers. By examining these late modernist writers comparatively, Lowney foregrounds differences of gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, and social class and region while emphasizing how each writer developed poetic forms that responded to the cultural politics and socioaesthetic debates of the 1930s. In so doing he calls into question the boundaries that have limited the scholarly dialogue about modern poetry. No other study of American poetry has considered the particular gathering of careers that Lowney considers. As poets whose collective historical consciousness was profoundly shaped by the turmoil of the Depression and war years and the Cold War's repression or rewriting of history, their diverse talents represent a distinct generational impact on U.S. and international literary history." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0666/2006044519-d.html OP - 287 CN - PS310.P6 L68 2006 SN - 9781587297335 SN - 1587297337 SN - 1587295083 SN - 9781587295089 KW - American poetry : 20th century : History and criticism. KW - Right and left (Political science) in literature. KW - Politics and literature : United States : History : 20th century. KW - Poets, American : 20th century : Political and social views. KW - Depressions : 1929 : United States. KW - Poésie américaine : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique. KW - Politique et littérature : États-Unis : Histoire : 20e siècle. KW - Poètes américains : 20e siècle : Pensée politique et sociale. KW - Crises économiques : 1929 : États-Unis. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : Poetry. KW - HISTORY : United States : 20th Century. KW - American poetry KW - Depressions KW - Poets, American : Political and social views KW - Politics and literature KW - Right and left (Political science) in literature KW - United States KW - Lyrik KW - Moderne KW - Die Linke KW - USA KW - 1900-1999 KW - Geschichte 1935-1968. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History ER -