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03821aam a2200493 i 4500 001 4E9360F22E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240619010048 008 221123s2023 lau b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022042821 020 $a 0807179353 020 $a 9780807179352 035 $a (OCoLC)1348922491 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS310.C59 $b G37 2023 082 00 $a 811/.509 $2 23/eng/20230227 100 1 $a Gargaillo, Florian, $e author. 245 10 $a Echo and critique : $b poetry and the clicheÌs of public speech / $c Florian Gargaillo. 246 30 $a Poetry and the clicheÌs of public speech 264 1 $a Baton Rouge : $b Louisiana State University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a 187 pages ; $c 23 cm 520 $a "In Echo and Critique, Florian Gargaillo tells a new story about the ways that poets living in the United States apprehended the clicheÌs of public speech in the four decades following the start of World War II. During this period, many intellectuals lamented that public discourse had become saturated with abstract stock phrases such as "the fight for freedom," "revenue enhancement," or "service the target" that are bureaucratic in origin, designed for the mass media, and used to euphemize, obfuscate, and evade. As Gargaillo shows, poets responded to these political clicheÌs with a major yet little discussed method that he calls "echo and critique," whereby they would quote discrete stock phrases in their poems, and then use the structure, tone, rhythm, and imagery of the surrounding context to study their implications and weigh their effects. The goal was not simply to dismiss these phrases, but to better understand their effectiveness, recognize the values they promote, and identify the realities they might seek to distort or suppress. The book moves chronologically from 1939 to the end of the Vietnam War and shows the evolution of echo and critique across four formative decades. While charting the pervasiveness of this method following the start of World War II, Gargaillo also examines in depth the crisis of conscience that public clicheÌs generated for individual poets including W. H. Auden, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, Robert Lowell, Josephine Miles, and Seamus Heaney. A dynamic literary and cultural study of postwar American poetry, Echo and Critique reveals how poets challenged the language that those in power deploy to achieve political ends"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a American poetry $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a ClicheÌs in literature. 650 0 $a Politics and literature $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a American poetry $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807348 650 7 $a ClicheÌs in literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902819 650 7 $a Intellectual life $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975769 650 7 $a Politics and literature $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069960 651 0 $a United States $x Intellectual life $y 20th century. 651 7 $a United States $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Literary criticism $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000001939 776 08 $i Online version: $a Gargaillo, Florian. $t Echo and critique $d Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2023] $z 9780807179994 $w (DLC) 2022042822 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240619011100.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4E9360F22E0111EFA856D47D28ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search