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Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town Volume 1

Spoon River America: Edgar Lee Masters and the Myth of the American Small Town Volume 1

Stacy, Jason

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Literary Criticism20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 0252085825
ISBN13: 9780252085826
Publisher: Univ Of Illinois Pr
Published: May 11 2021
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
From Main Street to Stranger Things, how poetry changed our idea of small town life

A literary and cultural milestone, Spoon River Anthology captured an idea of the rural Midwest that became a bedrock myth of life in small-town America. Jason Stacy places the book within the atmosphere of its time and follows its progress as the poetry took root and thrived. Published by Edgar Lee Masters in 1915, Spoon River Anthology won praise from modernists while becoming an ongoing touchstone for American popular culture. Stacy charts the ways readers embraced, debated, and reshaped Masters's work in literary controversies and culture war skirmishes; in films and other media that over time saw the small town as idyllic then conflicted then surreal; and as the source of three archetypes--populist, elite, and exile--that endure across the landscape of American culture in the twenty-first century.

A wide-ranging reconsideration of a literary landmark, Spoon River America tells the story of how a Midwesterner's poetry helped change a nation's conception of itself.

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