The Architecture of Address
The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry
Published on 1. May 2004
256 pages
978-1-135-87768-2 (ISBN)
Description
The Architecture of Address traces the evolution of an American species of lyric capable of public pronouncement without polemic. Beginning with Whitman, Jake Adam York seeks to describe a kind of poem wherein the most ambitious poets--including Hart Crane and Robert Lowell--occupy and reconstruct important public spaces. This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the monument.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
1,68 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-87768-2 (9781135877682)
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Person
Jake Adam York is currently Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado. His criticism has appeared in the Walt Whitman Quarterly Review and his poems have appeared in Shenandoah , The Southern Review , Crab OrchardReview, and other periodicals.
Content
1. Introduction 2. Whitman's Ferry: Platform of Culture Whitman and the Oratory of Early Nineteenth-Century America Whitman and Nineteenth-Century Architecture The Ferry as Monument 3. Crossing Over Brooklyn Ferry: Hart Crane's The Bridge as Monument The Constuctive Principle The Architecture of Anamnesis in The Bridge The Final Figure and the Life of Monument 4. Urban Revitalization: Robert Lowell's 'For the Union Dead' and the American Tradition of Monumental Rhetoric Coordinations The Cemeteries of Culture Enabling Tradition 5. After Lowell: Some Conclusions and Final Considerations
