Changing subjects : digressions in modern American poetry /
'Changing Subjects' contends that major American poets-such as Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Lyn Hejinian-transformed verse and even changed conceptions of modern subjectivity by exploiting an ordinary rhetorical device ubiquitous in spoken language: the digression.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- "It must change" : the art of digression in twentieth-century American poetry
- "To explain grace requires a curious hand" : Marianne Moore's interdisciplinary digressions
- Changing the szujet : Lyn Hejinian's digressive narratology and the writing of history
- Digression personified : Whitman, the New York School, and the drift of poetry
- New digressions : John Ashbery and the changing subjects of the twenty-first century.
