Poetry and Cultural Studies by Damon, Maria; Livingston, Ira;

Long description:

"This volume is the first of its kind to collect classic and contemporary work focused on the intersection of poetry and cultural studies, reaching from Wordsworth's ""Preface to Lyrical Ballads"" and W. E. B. Du Bois's ""Of the Sorrow Songs"" to present-day essays on rap lyrics, queer poetry, folk poetry, and beyond. Rethinking notions of poetic experiences and their roles in popular or mass culture, these essays effectively delineate the relationship between poetry--a stereotypically private endeavor in the post-Enlightenment West--and the public social culture in which it is engendered.

The writings in Poetry and Cultural Studies also acknowledge the major contributions of both the Frankfurt School, with its close analyses of reading and writing lyric poetry as social practices, and of the Birmingham School's major contributions toward broadening the field of artifacts permissible for serious study with the primarily literary tools of close reading of textual/textural detail. It is a volume that speaks to students, academics, poetry enthusiasts, and those interested in social movements, including slammers, academics, workshop leaders, and poetry theorists.

Table of Contents:

"ACKNOWLEDGMENTS---- ix
INTRODUCTION---- 1
Maria Damon and Ira Livingston

Precursors
1---- Preface to Lyrical Ballads---- 21
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
2---- Two Essays on Poetry and Society---- 25
THEODOR ADORNO
3---- On Some Motifs in Baudelaire---- 37
WALTER BENJAMIN
4---- What Is a Minor Literature?---- 56
GILLES DELEUZE AND FELIX GUATTARI
5---- Of the Sorrow Songs---- 61
W. E. B. DU BOIS
6---- A Theory of Discourse---- 67
ANTONY EASTHOPE

Ethnography
7---- Some Aspects of Folk Poetry---- 77
AMERICO PAREDES
8---- The Signifying Monkey and the Language of Signifyin(g): Rhetorical Difference and the Orders of Meaning---- 90
HENRY LOUIS GATES JR.
9---- Shifting Politics in Bedouin Love Poetry---- 116
LILA ABU-LAUGHOD
10---- The Poetric Construction of Self---- 133
STEVEN C. CATON
11---- Tell Them about Us: Some Poems from Southie---- 147
MARIA DAMON

Mass Culture/Cultural Politics
12---- The Bride of the Assembly Line: Radical Poetics in Construction---- 163
BARRETT WATTEN
13---- Assembly Poetics in the Global Economy: Nicaragua---- 177
BRUCE CAMPBELL
14---- Black Texts/Black Contexts---- 195
TRICIA ROSE
15---- Kickin' Eality, Kickin' Ballistics: Gangsta Rap and Postindustrial Los Angeles---- 199
ROBIN D. G. KELLEY
16---- Poetry for the People---- 213
AMITAVA KUMAR
17---- La Douceur de foyer: Lyric Poetry of the Year1857 as a Model for the Communication of Social Norms---- 226
HANS ROBERT JAUSS

National (De)Formations
18---- Smoke Rings: Worker-Poets in the France of Louis-Philippe---- 237
JACQUES RANCIERE
19---- Rimbaud and the Transformation of Social Space---- 248
KRISTIN ROSS
20---- Poetry and the Public: The Social Form of Modern U.S. Poetics---- 266
JOSEPH HARRINGTON
21---- Nation and Imagination---- 285
DIPESH CHAKRABARTY
22---- Angel Island and the Poetics of Error---- 301
YUNTE HUANG
23---- ""HOO, HOO, HOO"": Some Episodes in the Construction of Modern Male Whiteness---- 310
RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS

Subject (De)Formations
24---- A Poem Is Being Written---- 333
EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK
25---- A Musician Is Being Beaten---- 340
JOHN MOWITT
26---- Poetry and Anthropology---- 347
TRINH T. MINH-HA
27---- Poetry Is Not a Luxury---- 355
AUDRE LORDE
28---- A Blow Is Like an Instrument---- 359
CHARLES BERNSTEIN---- 359

Reinventing Tradition
29---- Sappho Is Burning: Fragmentary Introduction---- 375
PAGE DUBOIS
30---- Genocide, Modernism, and American Verse: Reading Diana Der-Hovanessian---- 390
WALTER KALAIDJIAN
31---- The Forms of Things Unknown---- 406
STEPHEN HENDERSON
32---- History of the Voice, 1979=1981---- 417
KAMAU BRATHWAITE
33---- Of Poetry and Power: Maya Angelou on the Inaugural Stage---- 428
ZOFIA BURR
34---- Nuyorican Language---- 437
MIGUEL ALGARIN
INDEX---- 447
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