American Comic Poetry
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-9984-7 (ISBN)
Comic poetry is serious stuff, combining incongruity, satire and psychological effects to provide us a brief victory over reason--which could help us save ourselves, if not the world. This book champions the literary movement of comic poetry in the U.S., providing an historical context and exploring the work of such writers as Denise Duhamel, Campbell McGrath, Billy Collins, Thomas Lux and Tony Hoagland. Their techniques reveal how they make us laugh while addressing important social concerns.
Jeff Morgan is a professor of English at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, and the author of four books, numerous essays and poems. He lives in Boynton Beach, Florida.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword: The Best of All Medicines by Michael Hettich
Preface
Introduction
The Intellectual Approach
The Functional Approach
The Psychological Approach
1. A Brief History of American Comic Literature
Colonial and Pre-Colonial American Comic Literature
The Revolting Period
Early Post-Colonial Era
James Russell Lowell
The Flowering of the Comic Voice
Early Twentieth Century
Dorothy Parker
Ogden Nash
Late Twentieth Century
2. The Long and Short of It
Denise Duhamel, Comic Prose Poetry and the Three-Pronged Approach
Campbell McGrath’s “Ode to Bureacrats” and the Three-Pronged Approach
3. Billy Collins and the Intellectual Approach
4. Thomas Lux and the Functional Approach
5. Tony Hoagland and the Psychological Approach
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.1.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | bibliography, index |
| Verlagsort | Jefferson, NC |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 272 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7864-9984-2 / 0786499842 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7864-9984-7 / 9780786499847 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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