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Changing subjects

Reddy, Srikanth, 1973-

Changing subjects digressions in modern American poetry / [electronic resource] : Srikanth Reddy. - New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

'Changing Subjects' contends that major American poets-such as Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Lyn Hejinian-transformed verse and even changed conceptions of modern subjectivity by exploiting an ordinary rhetorical device ubiquitous in spoken language: the digression.

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Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 --Criticism and interpretation.
Hejinian, Lyn--Criticism and interpretation.
Ashbery, John, 1927- --Criticism and interpretation.
Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 --Influence.


American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Digression (Rhetoric) in literature.
Poetics.

PS323.5 / .R43 2012

811.509