Poetry After the Invention of América
Don’t Light the Flower
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism, American
| Author: | A. Ajens | ISBN: | 9780230370678 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US | Publication: | October 26, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | A. Ajens |
| ISBN: | 9780230370678 |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Publication: | October 26, 2011 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book approaches literature as a Western invention and, in turn, seeks out correspondences between traditions
This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with "American" otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book approaches literature as a Western invention and, in turn, seeks out correspondences between traditions
