TY - BOOK AU - Reddy,Srikanth TI - Changing subjects: digressions in modern American poetry SN - 9780199950287 (ebook) : AV - PS323.5 .R43 2012 U1 - 811.509 23 PY - 2012/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Moore, Marianne, KW - Hejinian, Lyn KW - Ashbery, John, KW - Whitman, Walt, KW - American poetry KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - Digression (Rhetoric) in literature KW - Poetics N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - '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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199791026.001.0001 ER -