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  • The Poetry of Bob Dylan

    Thirty Essays on Thirty Songs

    Edited by Professor Mike Chasar ...
    Through short essays, leading poetry critics and Bob Dylan experts analyze songs from a range of perspectives to illuminate the songs' poetic and literary character.An innovative resource for Bob Dylan fans and scholars alike, these thirty essays by leading scholars of poetry, music, and literature illustrate how and why the work of the 2016 Nobel Literature Laureate is in fact so literary. ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Wreading

    A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know?

    by Jed Rasula, Joel Bettridge, Nathan Brown, Mike Chasar, Ming-Qian Ma, Evelyn Reilly, Leonard Schwartz, Tony Tost ...
    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholarJed Rasula is a distinguished scholar of avant-garde poetics, noted for his erudition, intellectual range, and critical independence. Wreading: A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know? is a collection of essays and interviews that reflects the breadth and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Poetry Unbound

    Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram

    by Mike Chasar ...
    It’s become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of poetry. Poetry, they say, is no longer relevant to the modern world, mortally wounded by the emergence of new media technologies. In Poetry Unbound, Mike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Poetry Unbound

    Poems and New Media from the Magic Lantern to Instagram

    by Mike Chasar ...
    It’s become commonplace in contemporary culture for critics to proclaim the death of poetry. Poetry, they say, is no longer relevant to the modern world, mortally wounded by the emergence of new media technologies. In Poetry Unbound, Mike Chasar rebuts claims that poetry has become a marginal art form, exploring how it has played a vibrant and culturally significant role by adapting to and shaping ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Everyday Reading

    Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America

    by Mike Chasar ...
    Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greeting cards, among other unconventional sources, Mike Chasar casts American poetry as an everyday phenomenon consumed and created by a vast range of readers. He shows how American poetry in the first half of the twentieth century and its reception helped set the stage for the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Paraliterary

    The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America

    by Merve Emre ...
    "[Emre's] intellectual moves . . . are many, subtle, and a pleasure to follow. . . . None of her bad readers could have written this very good book." — Los Angeles Review of BooksLiterature departments tend to be focused on turning out, "good" readers—attentive to nuance, aware of history, interested in literary texts as self-contained works. But the majority of readers are, to use Merve Emre's ... Read more

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  • The Monkey and the Wrench

    Essays into Contemporary Poetics

    by Mary Biddinger ...
    The Monkey and the Wrench: Essays into Contemporary Poetics takes a snapshot of a moving target: the ever-shifting conversation about today's poetry. The ten essays in this collection offer reflections and insights, practical advice for craft matters, and provocative points of departure for those who read and write poetry. This series seeks to further the discussion of poetics in America and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to American Poetry since 1945

    Edited by Jennifer Ashton ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The extent to which American poetry reinvented itself after World War II is a testament to the changing social, political and economic landscape of twentieth-century American life. Registering an important shift in the way scholars contextualize modern and contemporary American literature, this Companion explores how American poetry has documented and, at times, helped propel the literary and ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Art of Confession

    The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV

    by Christopher Grobe ...
    Series Book 1 - Performance and American Cultures
    The story of a new style of art—and a new way of life—in postwar America: confessionalism.What do midcentury “confessional” poets have in common with today’s reality TV stars? They share an inexplicable urge to make their lives an open book, and also a sense that this book can never be finished. Christopher Grobe argues that, in postwar America, artists like these forged a new way of being in the ... Read more

    Was $28.99 USD Now $24.99 USD

  • Not Born Digital

    Poetics, Print Literacy, New Media

    by Professor Daniel Morris ...
    Not Born Digital addresses from multiple perspectives – ethical, historical, psychological, conceptual, aesthetic – the vexing problems and sublime potential of disseminating lyrics, the ancient form of transmission and preservation of the human voice, in an environment in which e-poetry and digitalized poetics pose a crisis (understood as opportunity and threat) to traditional page poetry.The ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Bob Dylan: No Direction Home

    by Robert Shelton ...
    No Direction Home took 20 years to complete and has received widespread critical acclaim. Robert Shelton met Bob Dylan when the young singer arrived in New York; he became Dylan's friend, champion, and critic, and his book has been hailed as the definitive unauthorised biography of this moody, passionate genius and his world. Of more than a thousand books published about Bob Dylan, it is the only ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Susan Sontag

    The Complete Rolling Stone Interview

    by Jonathan Cott ...
    The candid and far-reaching interview with the public intellectual and author of Illness as Metaphor, conducted in 1978 Paris and New York.Over the summer and fall of 1978, Susan Sontag engaged in a series of deeply stimulating, provocative and intimate conversations with Jonathan Cott of Rolling Stone magazine. While the printed interview was extensive, it covered only a third of their twelve ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus