Hart Crane And the Modernist Epic
Canon And Genre Formation in Crane, Pound, Eliot, And Williams
Gabriel, Daniel
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BOOK SUMMARY
This study examines Hart Cranes canonical ambitions in The Bridge and argues for a new species of epic, the modernist epic, which also includes Pounds The Cantos, Eliots The Waste Land, and Williamss Paterson. It offers a close reading of The Bridge a
BOOK SYNOPSIS
This study examines Hart Crane’s canonical ambitions in The Bridge and argues for a new species of epic, “the modernist epic,” which also includes Pound’s The Cantos, Eliot’s The Waste Land, and Williams’s Paterson. It offers a close reading of The Bridge as a hybrid of lyric and epic modes. Crane’s sublime and history converge in a complex synthesis of form and ideas. The study reconceives Crane’s achievement by locating him in an intertextual system of production while also recognizing his poetic making of self. Yet in this work Crane assumes a greater political presence than much commentary has entertained.
AUTHOR BIO
Daniel Gabriel has previously published the books Sacco and Vanzetti and Columbus, both book-length poems on historical subjects. He was a contributor to How Shall We Tell Each Other of the Poet?: The Life and Writing of Muriel Rukeyser (Palgrave, 2001). His poems have also appeared, among other places, in The American Poetry Review, Poetry New York, Gnosis, and Gnosis Anthology. Theater productions of his work include a theatrical version of Sacco and Vanzetti, and the plays The Four Seasons of Salt, Exits, Snowbound, and The Fortunate Instant, an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poes The Fall of the House of Usher. He is a member of PEN American Center. He received his Ph.D. in English from the City University of New York Graduate School and teaches as a Part-Time Lecturer in the Livingston College Honors Program at Rutgers University.
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1403974454
ISBN(13-digit): 9781403974457
Dewey Decimal: 811/.52
Library of Congress: 2006049261
Book Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 222
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