ISBN10: 023060322X, ISBN13: 9780230603226, [publisher: Palgrave MacMillan, U.S.A.] Hardcover This is a fine, as new, hardcover first edition, first printing copy, no DJ, slick pictorial blue binding.
[Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2008]

New York Palgrave MacMillan 2008 2008 ed. Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 257 p. American Literature Readings in the 21st Century.

ISBN10: 023060322X, ISBN13: 9780230603226, [publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US] Hardcover
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2008]
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ISBN10: 023060322X, ISBN13: 9780230603226, [publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK] Hardcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Ashbery stand out among major American poets - all three shaped the direction and pushed the boundaries of contemporary poetry on an international scale. Drawing on biography, cultural history, and original archival research, MacArthur shows us that these distinctive poets share one surprisingly central trope in their oeuvres: the Romantic scene of the abandoned house. This book scrutinizes the popular notion of Frost as a deeply rooted New Englander, demonstrates that Frost had an underestimated influence on Bishop - whose preoccupation with houses and dwelling is the obverse of her obsession with travel - and questions dominant, anti-biographical readings of Ashbery as an urban-identified poet. As she reads poems that evoke particular landscapes and houses lost and abandoned by these poets, MacArthur also sketches relevant cultural trends, including patterns of rural de-settlement, the transformation of rural economies from agriculture to tourism, and modern American s increasing mobility and rootlessness.
[Einbeck, Germany] [Publication Year: 2008]
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