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Rhetorics of literacy

Nurhussein, Nadia, 1974-

Rhetorics of literacy the cultivation of American dialect poetry / [electronic resource] : Nadia Nurhussein. - Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c2013. - 1 online resource (328 p.)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The difficulty of dialect poetry -- Plain and peculiar dialects : Bret Harte and James Whitcomb Riley -- Lettered dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar I -- Cultivated dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar II -- Gendered dialect : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Maggie Pogue Johnson -- Annotated dialect : Claude McKay and Langston Hughes.

9780814270141 081427014X


Literacy in literature.
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
American poetry--History and criticism.--19th century
Dialect poetry, American--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PS323 / .N87 2013

811.009