Error title
Some error text about your books and stuff.
Close

Quotation and Modern American Poetry Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads

by Elizabeth Gregory

Quotation and Modern American Poetry Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads cover
  • ISBN: 9780892633418
  • ISBN10: 0892633417

Quotation and Modern American Poetry Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads

by Elizabeth Gregory

  • List Price: $37.50
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr
  • Publish date: 12/01/1996
  • ISBN: 9780892633418
  • ISBN10: 0892633417
used Add to Cart $29.53
You save: 21%
Marketplace Item
Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
Description: Why did quotation come into vogue among modernist American poets when, historically, allusion had been the preferred mode of intertextual reference? Elizabeth Gregory argues that quotation served as a site of these poets' struggle with questions of literary authority and, relatedly, of cultural and gender identity. While different poets quoted very different kinds of texts to very different effects, their shared reliance on quotation suggests their commonality of concerns - concerns that remain of interest in the postmodernist world, where quotation has become the prevalent artistic method. Gregory reads the efflorescence of poetic quotation as part of an attempt to redefine the sources of authority in the modernist world, in which traditional hierarchies of all kinds seemed to be disintegrating. For Americans and for women this breakdown offered an opportunity, since they had long occupied a secondary position in the reigning cultural and gender orders. But it was an opportunity with a cost, and not all poets welcomed it. Through close readings of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land, William Carlos William's Paterson, and a selection of the poetry of Marianne Moore, the author explores the spectrum of modernist response to these issues and the ways in which each poet used quotation to establish a very different position of authority for him or herself. Eliot employs quotation to reassert old hierarchies and, by denying his Americanness, to claim a place of authority within them. Moore, oppositely, employs quotation as a means of questioning hierarchy and of laying claim to a kind of anti-authoritative authority for herself. Williams takes an insistently ambivalent position toward authority,represented most clearly in his schizophrenic attitudes toward gender.
Expand description
Product notice Returnable at the third party seller's discretion and may come without consumable supplements like access codes, CD's, or workbooks.
Seller Condition Comments Price  
Seller: Lady BookHouse
Location: Belmont, MA
Condition: Like New
Shipping Icon
Size: 6x1x9; This book may be an ex-library item. This book is in
[...]
Price:
$29.53
Comments:
Size: 6x1x9; This book may be an ex-library item. This book is in
[...]
Seller: Bonita
Location: Newport Coast, CA
Condition: Good
Shipping Icon
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Price:
$66.31
Comments:
Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
please wait
Please Wait

Notify Me When Available

Enter your email address below,
and we'll contact you when your school adds course materials for
.
Enter your email address below, and we'll contact you when is back in stock (ISBN: ).