商品簡介
Poems Containing History: Twentieth-Century American Poetry's Engagement with the Past, by Gary Grieve-Carlson, argues that twentieth-century American poetry has “contained” and helped its readers to think about history in a variety of provocative and powerful ways. Tracing the discussion of the relationship between poetry and history from Aristotle's Poetics to Norman Mailer's The Armiesof the Night and Hayden White's Metahistory, the book shows that even as history evolves into a professional, academic discipline in the late nineteenth century, and as its practitioners emphasize the scientific aspects of their work and minimize its literary aspects, twentieth-century American poets continue to take history as the subject of their major poems.
作者簡介
Gary Grieve-Carlson is professor of English and former director of general education at Lebanon Valley College in Annville, Pennsylvania, where he has taught for more than twenty years. The recipient of awards for teaching excellence at three colleges, he has been a Fulbright junior lecturer in the Federal Republic of Germany and has lectured at universities in the People’s Republic of China and New Zealand. He is the editor of Olson’s Prose and has published in such journals as Paideuma, The New England Quarterly, Modern Language Studies, and Soundings.
