The Cambridge History of American Literature: Volume 8, Poetry and Criticism, 1940-1995

• Author(s): Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell,
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 545
• ISBN_10: 0521497337
  ISBN_13: 9780521497336
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / General , Literary Criticism / American / General , Literary Criticism / Reference , Literary Criticism / Poetry ,

Description:... IVolume 8, concerned with works of poetry and criticism written between 1940 and the present, brings together two different sets of materials and narrative forms: the aesthetic and the institutional. Discarding the traditional synoptic overview of major figures, von Hallberg, Graff, and Carton settle in favor of a history from the inside--a history of interstices and relations, equal to the task of considering the contexts of art, power, and criticism in which it is set.