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14%OFFJoan Shelley Rubin - Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America - 9780674035126 - V9780674035126
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Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America

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Description for Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America Paperback. In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. This book presents a portrait of the uses of verse in America. It shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. Num Pages: 488 pages, 25 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DCF; HBJK; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 141 x 31. Weight in Grams: 616.

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In the years between 1880 and 1950, Americans recited poetry at family gatherings, school assemblies, church services, camp outings, and civic affairs. As they did so, they invested poems--and the figure of the poet--with the beliefs, values, and emotions that they experienced in those settings.

Reciting a poem together with others joined the individual to the community in a special and memorable way. In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Joan Shelley Rubin shows how ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
488
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674035126
SKU
V9780674035126
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Ref
99-1

About Joan Shelley Rubin
Joan Shelley Rubin is Professor of History at the University of Rochester.

Reviews for Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America
Here is a model of what scholarship can do: knowledge, imaginatively applied to matters of importance. Joan Rubin gives an understated but forceful history of poetry's readership, fads, attainments and allegiances in the United States. Implicitly, by sheer force of information, Rubin dispels blather—wiping away trite assumptions, displacing stereotypes, and correcting nostalgia for some vague good old days. Through the ... Read more

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