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Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry Reddy, Srikanth (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago)
Changing Subjects: Digressions in Modern American Poetry
Reddy, Srikanth (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, University of Chicago)
Changing Subjects contends that major American poets-such as Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Lyn Hejinian-transformed verse and even changed conceptions of modern subjectivity by exploiting an ordinary rhetorical device, ubiquitous in spoken language: the digression.
208 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 26, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199791026 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 208 |
| Dimensions | 165 × 241 × 19 mm · 476 g |
| Language | English |