Ghostly figures : memory and belatedness in postwar American poetry /
Keniston, Ann, 1961-
Ghostly figures : memory and belatedness in postwar American poetry / Ann Keniston. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource. - Contemporary North American poetry series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: "Not needed except as meaning": memory and belatedness in postwar American poetry -- The holocaust again: literal and figurative fragmentation in Sylvia Plath's Ariel -- "To feel with a human stranger": asymmetrical witness and address in Adrienne Rich's Dark fields of the republic -- "I am the ghost who haunts us": prosopopeia and the poetics of infection in AIDS poetry -- "Deep into the lateness now": likeness and lateness in Jorie Graham's Region of unlikeness -- "Spectral scraps": displacement, metonymy, and the elegiac in Susan Howe's The midnight -- Coda: "To begin the forgetting": belatedness beyond memory.
9781609383541
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Memory in literature.
Literature and history--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
PS323 / .G467 2015
Ghostly figures : memory and belatedness in postwar American poetry / Ann Keniston. - Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource. - Contemporary North American poetry series .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: "Not needed except as meaning": memory and belatedness in postwar American poetry -- The holocaust again: literal and figurative fragmentation in Sylvia Plath's Ariel -- "To feel with a human stranger": asymmetrical witness and address in Adrienne Rich's Dark fields of the republic -- "I am the ghost who haunts us": prosopopeia and the poetics of infection in AIDS poetry -- "Deep into the lateness now": likeness and lateness in Jorie Graham's Region of unlikeness -- "Spectral scraps": displacement, metonymy, and the elegiac in Susan Howe's The midnight -- Coda: "To begin the forgetting": belatedness beyond memory.
9781609383541
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Memory in literature.
Literature and history--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic Books.
PS323 / .G467 2015