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Author:

Keniston, Ann, 1961- author.

Title:

Ghostly figures : memory and belatedness in postwar American poetry / Ann Keniston.

Publisher:

University of Iowa Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xii, 240 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
Memory in literature.
Literature and history--United States--History--20th century.
American poetry.
Literature and history.
Memory in literature.
United States.
1900 - 1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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": address and asymmetrical witness 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.

Series:

Contemporary North American poetry series

ISBN:

1609383532
9781609383534

OCLC:

(OCoLC)905969931

LCCN:

2015005556

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)