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Poetry After the Invention of América: Don't Light the Flower

Poetry After the Invention of América: Don't Light the Flower

Hardcover

Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Literary CriticismPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0230115799
ISBN13: 9780230115798
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Oct 26 2011
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
This collection of essays traces the emergence of the Western poem from the standpoint of its collision with American otherness, particularly, the Latin American tradition. Unlike works extending Western conceptions of writing or searching for an alleged American ethnopoetics, this book approaches literature as a Western invention and, in turn, seeks out correspondences between traditions

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