John D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social landscape. Kerkering explores poetry's formal properties, its sound effects, as they intersect with the issues of race and nation. He shows how formal effects, ranging from meter and rhythm to alliteration and melody, provide these writers with evidence of a collective identity, whether national or racial. Through this shared reliance on formal literary effects, national and racial identities, Kerkering shows, are related elements of a single literary history. This is the story of how poetic effects helped to define national identities in Anglo-America as a step toward helping to define racial identities within the United States. This highly original study will command a wide audience of Americanists.
| ISBN: | 9780521120968 |
| Publication date: | 27th August 2009 |
| Author: | John D Loyola University, Chicago Kerkering |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 368 pages |
| Series: | Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary theory |
John D. Kerkering's study examines the literary history of racial and national identity in nineteenth-century America. Kerkering argues that writers such as DuBois, Lanier, Simms, and Scott used poetic effects to assert the distinctiveness of certain groups in a diffuse social landscape. Kerkering explores poetry's formal properties, its sound effects, as they intersect with the issues of race and nation. He shows how formal effects, ranging from meter and rhythm to alliteration and melody, provide these writers with evidence of a collective identity, whether national or racial. Through this shared reliance on formal literary effects, national and racial identities, Kerkering shows, are related elements of a single literary history. This is the story of how poetic effects helped to define national identities in Anglo-America as a step toward helping to define racial identities within the United States. This highly original study will command a wide audience of Americanists.
The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature features in the following genres: Literary theory
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The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature was written by John D Loyola University, Chicago Kerkering and published by Cambridge University Press
The Poetics of National and Racial Identity in Nineteenth-Century American Literature has 368 pages
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