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Pursue the Illusion: Problems of Public Poetry in America

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Pursue the Illusion: Problems of Public Poetry in America - Franke, Astrid
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Based on the assumption that the concept of the 'public' as understood in American Pragmatism is better suited to literary and historical studies than is Habermas's "public sphere", this study investigates how public poetry pursues a public role not as a given but as a challenge and often an illusion. It traces a tradition of public poetry in the U.S. arising from the (neo-)classical tradition at the time of the American Revolution and its idea of poetry's public function in a republic to poetry as non-individualistic ...

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Pursue the Illusion: Problems of Public Poetry in America 2010, Universitatsverlag Winter, Heidelberg

ISBN-13: 9783825357511

Hardcover