Burt The Forms of Youth

Twentieth-Century Poetry and Adolescence
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-51202-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Burt, Stephanie

Burt, Stephen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Altersgruppen Kinder- und Jugendsoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Modernist Poetics of Adolescence
2. From Schools to Subcultures: Adolescence in Modern British Poetry
3. Soldiers, Babysitters, Delinquents, and Mutants: Adolescence in Midcentury American Poetry
4. Are You One of Those Girls? Feminist Poetics of Adolescence
5. An Excess of Dreamy Possibilities: Ireland and Australia
6. Midair: Adolescence in Contemporary American Poetry
Notes
Works Cited
Acknowledgments
Index

Leseproben

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Über Autor(innen)

Stephen Burt teaches in the English Department at Harvard University. From 2000 to 2007 he taught at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author of the critical study Randall Jarrell and His Age and the editor of Randall Jarrell on W. H. Auden, both published by Columbia University Press, and the author of three books of poems, including Parallel Play. His essays and articles on modern and contemporary poetry have appeared in many journals in America, Britain, and elsewhere, among them American Literary History, Boston Review, London Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Yale Review. A collection of those essays and reviews will be published in 2009.