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Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading
Susan B. Rosenbaum
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Hardcover. Guided by the question of why we expect poetry to be sincere, this work reveals that, in fact, sincerity in the modern lyric was in many ways a product of commercial culture. It shows how through textual claims to sincerity poets addressed moral anxieties about the authenticity, autonomy, and transparency of literature written in and for a market. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 576.
Sincerity - the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author - has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American poetry since the romantic era. Most critical studies have unheld an opposition between sincerity and the literary marketplace, contributing to the widespread understanding of the lyric poem as a moral refuge from the taint of commercial culture. Guided by the question of why we expect poetry to be sincere, Susan Rosenbaum reveals in ""Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading"" that, in fact, sincerity in ... Read more
Sincerity - the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author - has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American poetry since the romantic era. Most critical studies have unheld an opposition between sincerity and the literary marketplace, contributing to the widespread understanding of the lyric poem as a moral refuge from the taint of commercial culture. Guided by the question of why we expect poetry to be sincere, Susan Rosenbaum reveals in ""Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading"" that, in fact, sincerity in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813926100
SKU
V9780813926100
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About Susan B. Rosenbaum
Susan B. Rosenbaum is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Georgia.
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