Mark W. Van Wienen, Mark W. Van Wienen

Partisans and Poets

The Political Work of American Poetry in the Great War

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of American poetry and the political culture of World War I.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780521110068
• ISBN-10: 0521110068
• Artikelnr.: 26055695

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Partisan poetics, circa 1914
1. I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier: The Woman's Peace Party and the Pacifist Majority
2. The new society within the shell of the old: Wobbly Parody Poetical and Political
3. The barbarians at the gate: The Soldier-Poet and the Great War in Black and White
4. Marketing patriotism: The Frugal Housewife and the Consumption of Poetry
5. Beating the competition: The Woman's Peace Party and the Industrial Workers of the World on Trial
6. While this war lasts: Readerly Resistance on the Colour Line and the Bread Line
Conclusion: history and poetry in the age of irony.