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Charbonneau, David Douglas.

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Finding the middle ground: Modern regionalism and Midwestern poetry, 1930-2003.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Finding the middle ground: Modern regionalism and Midwestern poetry, 1930-2003./
Author:	Charbonneau, David Douglas.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2003,
Description:	282 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 65-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International65-11A.
Subject:	American literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3113703
ISBN:	9780496611966

Finding the middle ground: Modern regionalism and Midwestern poetry, 1930-2003.
Charbonneau, David Douglas.

Finding the middle ground: Modern regionalism and Midwestern poetry, 1930-2003. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2003 - 282 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 65-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2003.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

After decades of relative neglect, regionalism has re-emerged recently as a critical paradigm for studying literature. This emerging discussion of the significance of regionalism to the study of both nineteenth- and twentieth-century texts has, however, only begun to consider poetry. Moreover, in American literary studies, this renaissance of regionalism has devoted scant attention to the Midwest. My study redresses these oversights by bringing greater attention to some understudied poets of the region and by examining their regional influences. Disputing the accepted picture of regionalism as irrelevant to significant writing from Midwesterners post-nineteenth century, this study focuses on poets writing in the wake of modernism in order to elucidate a continuing regional strain in their work. These poets engage not only with the changing culture and geography of a region facing rapid modernization, but also with modernism's cosmopolitan and experimental legacy. These engagements lead to a hybrid regionalism that involves the poets' incorporation of modernist influences into a poetics still committed to the representation of regional space. Such poetic practice belies the traditional critical opposition of modernism and regionalism. This study focuses on the emergence of this hybrid regionalism in three significant poets. Chapter one examines how Wisconsin poet Lorine Niedecker negotiates between a rural folk voice of the upper Midwest and the experimental aesthetics she adapted from the Objectivists. Chapter two examines how the relatively traditional poetics of Amy Clampitt interrogate the romantic narrative of Manifest destiny developed in the nineteenth century and the Midwest's crucial role in its construction. Finally, chapter three explores the corpus of James Wright, reading the well-mapped shifts in his style as a function of his revisions of a midwestern dialectic of promise and blight. The conclusion demonstrates the continuing presence of a regionalist perspective among younger midwestern poets-one that offers an ongoing revision of the nature and role of region in an increasingly global culture. This study argues, then, for modern regionalism as another legitimate critical and creative response to the historical and literary conditions of an undeniably postmodern world.

ISBN: 9780496611966Subjects--Topical Terms:

523234
American literature.
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Amy Clampitt

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