Constructions of Europe in modern American poetry / Elin Käck.
| Author/creator | Käck, Elin, 1983- author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2026] |
| Copyright Date | ©2026 |
| Description | xvii, 255 pages : illustration ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | monochrome |
| Physical medium | illustration |
| Series | Modern American literature and the new twentieth century Modern American literature and the new twentieth century. ^A1373755 |
| Contents | Introduction : Off to Europe : European travel from modernism to postwar poetry -- Approaching Europe : the poetic mapping of storied spaces -- Sight and site : between poet and tourist -- "Solidified nostalgia" : pastness, historicity, and the cliché -- Relational geographies : place names, power, and poetic proximities -- Geology and landscape : on European soil -- Concluding remarks : Post-Europe? |
| Abstract | "American poets were at the core of the modernist movement, a position largely contingent on their being in Europe. But what role has European travel played in the development of American poetry since then? Constructions of Europe in Modern American Poetry examines poems and other writings by over twenty American poets, focusing especially on the modernist moment and the postwar generation. This rich material reveals the foundational role that poets' travels in and to Europe have had on the development of American poetry, from the ways the modernists tackled tradition to the postwar poets' reckoning with their modernist precursors in Europe's places. European travel lays bare anxieties about the conflation of the roles of poet and tourist and is intimately connected to issues of poetic legitimacy and belatedness."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-238) and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Käck, Elin, 1983- Constructions of Europe in modern American poetry. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2026] 9781399536165 |
| Genre/form | Literary criticism. |
| Genre/form | Critiques littéraires. |
| ISBN | 9781399536134 |
| ISBN | 1399536133 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
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