Poetic Community : Avant-Garde activism and Cold War Culture /
Voyce, Stephen
Poetic Community : Avant-Garde activism and Cold War Culture / Stephen Voyce. - 1 online resource (368 p.) : 7 b&w illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Poetic Community examines the relationship between poetry and community formation in the decades after the Second World War. In four detailed case studies (of Black Mountain College in North Carolina, the Caribbean Artists Movement in London, the Women's Liberation Movement at sites throughout the US, and the Toronto Research Group in Canada) the book documents and compares a diverse group of social models, small press networks, and cultural coalitions informing literary practice during the Cold War era.Drawing on a wealth of unpublished archival materials, Stephen Voyce offers new and insightful comparative analysis of poets such as John Cage, Charles Olson, Adrienne Rich, Kamau Brathwaite, and bpNichol. In contrast with prevailing critical tendencies that read mid-century poetry in terms of expressive modes of individualism, Poetic Community demonstrates that the most important literary innovations of the post-war period were the results of intensive collaboration and social action opposing the Cold War's ideological enclosures.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442645240 9781442662155
10.3138/9781442662155 doi
Cold War--Influence.
Literary movements--History--20th century.
Poetics--History--20th century.
Poetry--Social aspects.
DISCOUNT-B.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian.
PN1081 / .V69 2013eb
809.1/9358
Poetic Community : Avant-Garde activism and Cold War Culture / Stephen Voyce. - 1 online resource (368 p.) : 7 b&w illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Poetic Community examines the relationship between poetry and community formation in the decades after the Second World War. In four detailed case studies (of Black Mountain College in North Carolina, the Caribbean Artists Movement in London, the Women's Liberation Movement at sites throughout the US, and the Toronto Research Group in Canada) the book documents and compares a diverse group of social models, small press networks, and cultural coalitions informing literary practice during the Cold War era.Drawing on a wealth of unpublished archival materials, Stephen Voyce offers new and insightful comparative analysis of poets such as John Cage, Charles Olson, Adrienne Rich, Kamau Brathwaite, and bpNichol. In contrast with prevailing critical tendencies that read mid-century poetry in terms of expressive modes of individualism, Poetic Community demonstrates that the most important literary innovations of the post-war period were the results of intensive collaboration and social action opposing the Cold War's ideological enclosures.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781442645240 9781442662155
10.3138/9781442662155 doi
Cold War--Influence.
Literary movements--History--20th century.
Poetics--History--20th century.
Poetry--Social aspects.
DISCOUNT-B.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian.
PN1081 / .V69 2013eb
809.1/9358