2016

Welcome to the latest series of New Casebooks. Each volume now presents brand new essays specially written for university and other students. Like the original series, the new-look New Casebooks embrace a range of recent critical approaches to the debates and issues that characterize the current discussion of literature. Each editor has been asked to commission a sequence of original essays which will introduce the reader to the innovative critical approaches to the text or texts being discussed in the collection. The intention is to illuminate the rich interchange between critical theory and critical practice that today underpins so much writing about literature. Editors have also been asked to supply an introduction to each volume that sets the scene for the essays that follow, together with a list of further reading which will enable readers to follow up issues raised by the essays in the collection. The purpose of this new-look series, then, is to provide students with fresh thinking about key texts and writers while encouraging them to extend their own ideas and responses to the texts they are studying.

American Literature, 2012

The Cambridge Companion to Modern American Poetry comprises original essays by nineteen distinguished scholars. It offers a critical overview of major and emerging American poets of the twentieth century in addition to critical accounts of the representative schools, movements, regional settings, archival resources, and critical reception that define modern American poetry. The Companion stretches the narrow term of “literary modernism,” which encompasses works published from approximately 1890 to 1945, to include a more capacious and usable account of American poetry’s evolution from the twentieth century to the present. The essays collected here seek to account for modern American verse against the contexts of broad political, social, and cultural fields and forces. This volume gathers together major voices that represent the best in contemporary critical approaches and methods. Walter Kalaidjian is professor and chair of the department of English at Emory University. He is the author of The Edge of Modernism: American Poetry and the Traumatic Past and editor of The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism . CONTENTS Introduction xv Walter Kalaidjian 1 The Emergence of “The New Poetry” 11 John Timberman Newcomb 2 Modern American Archives and Scrapbook Modernism 23 Bartholomew Brinkman 3 Experimental Modernisms 37 Alan Golding 4 The Legacy of New York 50 Cary Nelson 5 The Modern American Long Poem 65 Anne Day Dewey 6 American Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance 77 James Smethurst 7 Objectivist Poetry and Poetics 89 Rachel Blau DuPlessis 8 American Poetry and the Popular Front 102 Alan Wald 9 Tracking the Fugitive Poets 116 Kieran Quinlan 10 Mid-Century Modernism 128 Stephen Burt 11 Psychotherapy and Confessional Poetry 143 Michael Thurston 12 Black Mountain Poetry 155 Kaplan Harris 13 Beat Poetry: HeavenHell USA, 1946–1965 167 Maria Damon 14 The Black Arts Movement and Black Aesthetics 180 Evie Shockley 15 New York School and American Surrealist Poetics 196 Edward Brunner 16 Land, Place, and Nation: Toward an Indigenous American Poetics 209 Janet McAdams 17 Transpacific and Asian American Counterpoetics 223 Yunte Huang 18 Language Writing 234 Barrett Watten 19 Poet-Critics and Bureaucratic Administration 248 Evan Kindley Guide to Further Reading 259 Index 271

2006

Introductions to Literature This series sets out to provide concise and stimulating introductions to literary subjects. It offers books on major authors (from John Milton to James Joyce), as well as key periods and movements (from Old English literature to the contemporary). Coverage is also afforded to such specific topics as "Arthurian Romance." All are written by outstanding scholars as texts to inspire newcomers and others: non-specialists wishing to revisit a topic, or general readers. The prospective overall aim is to ground and prepare students and readers of whatever kind in their pursuit of wider reading.

A History of American Poetry: Contexts-Developments-Readings. Eds. Oliver Scheiding, René Dietrich, Clemens Spahr. Trier: WVT, 2015.

This handbook answers the need for fresh and informative readings of canonical and non-canonical poems. The thirty-one chapters engage revisionary trends in poetry scholarship. They unfold a critical history of American poetry that challenges conventional interpretations and provide insightful new readings of well-known poems and writers as well as introductions to poets and texts that may be more unfamiliar. Each chapter focuses on two poets set into dialogue with each other, presenting paired readings of one representative text from each author. In addition to a number of familiar texts and names that are necessary for students to understand basic developments in American poetry, the handbook offers chapters on multilingual colonial poetry, nineteenth-century Native American poetry, and contemporary experimental poetry. The paired readings of poems in each chapter also invite interconnected lessons that make readers compare, for example, the communal conventions of colonial poetry to the collective poetics of contemporary performance poetry. The handbook encourages readings across and against literary periods, while annotated paired readings and additional reading suggestions should inspire students to analyze poems as particular sites of historical and political meaning. Being both a manual in terms of current theoretical directions in literary studies and a guide to practical criticism, A History of American Poetry helps students to further explore the diversity and multiple poetic traditions that make up American poetry in its intersections with historical contexts and other literatures.

2007

Acknowledgements Paul Scott DERRICK: Introduction I. Reflections on Modernity: The Aura of Modernism Marjorie PERLOFF: The Aura of Modernism II. Transgressing Boundaries: Some Modernists Revisited Barry AHEARN: Frost's Sonnets, In and Out of Bounds Helene AJI: Pound and Williams: The Letters as Modernist Manifesto Zhaoming QIAN: Pao-hsien Fang and the Naxi Rites in Ezra Pound's Cantos Viorica PATEA: T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land and the Poetics of the Mythical Method Isabelle ALFANDARY: Poetry as Ungrammar in E. E. Cummings' Poems Bart EECKHOUT: Wallace Stevens' Poetry of Resistance III. Strategies of Renewal: Modernism in a Broader Context Gudrun M. GRABHER: In Search of Words for "Moon-Viewing": The Japanese Haiku and the Skepticism towards Language in Modernist American Poetry Ernesto SUAREZ-TOSTE: Spontaneous, not Automatic: William Carlos Williams versus Surrealist Poetics Manuel BRITO: Instances of the Journey Motif through Language and Selfhood in...

American Literary Scholarship, 2002

Cultural studies of poetry and poetics are burgeoning. When the White House orchestrated a gathering of American poets laureate Rita Dove, Robert Hass, and Robert Pinsky for a celebration of American poetry, the event was not complete without a presidential recitation of Octavio Paz. The year began with one of the most inclusive representations of small press publishing in the 20th century, an exhibition arranged by the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library, and the year ends with the publication of a massive Volume II: From Postwar to Millennium of Poems for the Millennium: The University of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, ed. Pierre Joris and Jerome Rothenberg (Calif.), which is resolutely transnational in focus. Poetry's ''eventfulness''-its ability to make things happen and its intersections with performance theory and media studies-is widely in evidence. Environmental criticism and anthological criticism also make a contribution, along with more traditional biographical criticism, new and traditional genre studies, queer theory, and feminist approaches. i General Studies: from Avant-Garde to New Formalism A Secret Location on the Lower East Side: Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980 (NYPL), a book by Stephen Clay and Rodney Phillips about the mimeo revolution and its e√ects on poetry, has been published in conjunction with the New York Public Library exhibition. One of this year's most striking and undoubtedly most amply illustrated histories of poetry and poetics, it features more than 200 black-and-white photographs, meticulous chronologies, and checklists of publications and of the poets appearing in them. Jerome Rothenberg's ''Pre-Face'' takes the exuberant view: the ''mainstream of [contemporary] American poetry has always been in