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Ezra Pound

The Contemporary Reviews

By: Betsy Erkkila

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Ezra Pound

The Contemporary Reviews

By: Betsy Erkkila

No one better symbolizes the course of modern literature its triumphs and defeats than Pound. From the dreaminess and aestheticism of his early poems, to his Imagist and Vorticist manifestos, to the formally experimental method and mythic engagement with history in The Cantos, Pound marks the path that modern and postmodern poetry would follow. This collection provides a documentary record of the reviews of Ezra Pound's work in contemporary journals and newspapers, an introduction that traces the public outrage and controversy that characterized Pound's reception, and checklists of all known reviews of Pound's work. Most of the major poets and critics of the twentieth-century reviewed Pound's work, including T. S. Eliot, Ford Maddox Ford, William Carlos Williams and Edmund Wilson. Their multiple, perplexed, and sometimes hostile responses to his work provide a rich record of the struggles that marked the emergence of modern and contemporary poetry and poetics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107375991

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9781107375994

The Whitman Revolution

Sex, Poetry, and Politics

By: Betsy Erkkila

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The Whitman Revolution

Sex, Poetry, and Politics

By: Betsy Erkkila

The Whitman Revolution brings together a rich collection of Betsy Erkkila’s phenomenally influential essays that have been published over the years, along with two powerful new essays. Erkkila offers a moving account of the inseparable mix of the spiritual-sexual-political in Whitman and the absolute centrality of male-male connection to his work and thinking. Her work has been at the forefront of scholarship positing that Whitman’s songs are songs not only of workers and occupations but of sex and the body, homoeroticism, and liberation. What is more, Erkkila’s writing demonstrates that this sexuality and communal impulse is central to Whitman’s revolutionary poetry and his conception of democracy itself—an insight that was all but suppressed during the mid-twentieth century emergence of American literature as a field of study. Highlights of this collection include Erkkila’s essays on pairings such as Marx and Whitman, Dickinson and Whitman, and Melville and Whitman. Across the volume, she demonstrates an international vision that highlights the place of Leaves of Grass within a global struggle for democracy. The Whitman Revolution is evidence of Erkkila’s remarkable ability to lead critical discussions, and marks an exciting event in Whitman studies.

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University of Iowa Press

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1609387228

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The Wicked Sisters

Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord

By: Betsy Erkkila

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The Wicked Sisters

Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord

By: Betsy Erkkila

This examination of the lives and poetic works of Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich and Gwendolyn Brooks focuses on the historical struggles between women writers and feminists. It traces the conflict that has taken place through the generations.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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019507212X

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9780195072129

Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses

Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars

By: Betsy Erkkila

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Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses

Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars

By: Betsy Erkkila

In this series of essays Betsy Erkkila considers the historical and psychological dramas of blood—as marker of violence, race, sex, kinship—that have stood near the center of American literature, culture, and politics since the eighteenth century.

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288

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812238443

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9780812238440

Whitman the Political Poet

By: Betsy Erkkila

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Whitman the Political Poet

By: Betsy Erkkila

Erkkila's aim is to repair the split between the private and the public, the personal and the political and the poet and the history that has governed the analysis and evaluation of Whitman and his work in the past.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195113802

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9780195113808

Whitman the Political Poet

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Whitman the Political Poet

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The Whitman Revolution

Sex, Poetry, and Politics

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Sex, Poetry, and Politics

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Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses

Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars

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Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars

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Ezra Pound

The Contemporary Reviews

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The Contemporary Reviews

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The Wicked Sisters

Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord

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Women Poets, Literary History, and Discord

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Breaking Bounds

Whitman and American Cultural Studies

By: Betsy Erkkila,Jay Grossman

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Breaking Bounds

Whitman and American Cultural Studies

By: Betsy Erkkila,Jay Grossman

Breaking Bounds invigorates the study of Whitman and American culture by presenting essays that demonstrate Whitman's centrality to the widest range of social, political, literary, sexual, and cultural discourses of his time and ours. Bringing together a distinguished group of cultural critics working in the fields of literature, American studies, Latin American studies, European studies, art history, and gay/lesbian/queer studies, the volume persistently opens new vistas in the ways we see Whitman and provides a model for the newest and brightest intellectual efforts associated with "cultural studies." Central to the volume is a set of provocative essays in queer studies that break the bounds of decorum that have too long separated Whitman's sexuality from his politics, and his poetry from both. The Whitman that emerges from these collected essays is renewed for a new generation of literary scholars working to define the places and the functions of his poetic words in the world. Taken as a whole, the volume points to the interdisciplinary future of American literary and cultural studies. Breaking Bounds is essential reading for anyone interested in Whitman both inside and outside the academy.

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0199762287

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Walt Whitman Among the French

Poet and Myth

By: Betsy Erkkila

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Walt Whitman Among the French

Poet and Myth

By: Betsy Erkkila

As the first full treatment of Walt Whitman's French sources and his later impact on French writers, this book revises our image of the poet and challenges many critical assumptions. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400854547

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Book's by Betsy Erkkila

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

The Whitman Revolution

The Whitman Revolution

The Wicked Sisters

The Wicked Sisters

Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses

Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses

Whitman the Political Poet

Whitman the Political Poet

Whitman the Political Poet

Whitman the Political Poet

The Whitman Revolution

The Whitman Revolution

Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses

Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses

Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

The Wicked Sisters

The Wicked Sisters

Breaking Bounds

Breaking Bounds

Walt Whitman Among the French

Walt Whitman Among the French

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