The Architecture of Address: The Monument and Public Speech in American Poetry (Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory)

✍ Scribed by Jake Adam York

Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 194
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This study argues that American poets become civic actors when their poems imagine and reconstruct the conceptual architecture of the moment.

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