{"product_id":"quotation-and-modern-american-poetry-imaginary-gardens-with-real-toads-9780892633470","title":"Quotation and Modern American Poetry: \"'imaginary Gardens with Real Toads.'\"","description":"In this volume Elizabeth Gregory addresses a number of key issues surrounding the formation of the American poetic canon. Taking as her primary examples T. S. Eliot's \u003ci\u003eWaste\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLand\u003c\/i\u003e, William Carlos Williams' \u003ci\u003ePaterson\u003c\/i\u003e, and selected poems by Marianne Moore, she examines the ways in which modern American writers struggled with questions of literary authority and cultural identity in relation to pre-existing European models. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gregory focuses on these issues through analysis of the use of quotation in modern and postmodern literature, a practice that was strikingly divergent from the accepted use of literary allusion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Her introduction traces a history of quotation as it has been practiced in literature from classical to modern times. She then focuses on the texts of Eliot, Williams, and Moore--three central figures of American modernism whose work the author believes represents a spectrum of responses to the established European model of poetical discourse. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gregory's selection of Moore also allows her to deal with feminist concerns as they emerge in the more general modernist dialogue. How was a female writer to make use of a literary canon that traditionally excluded female participation? \"The implications of Gregory's argument . . . will surely be of especial interest to feminist scholars of American poetry.\"--Lois Parkinson Zamora, University of Houston.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas A\u0026amp;M University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780892633470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.04w x 0.75d","brand":"Elizabeth Gregory","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774093652149,"sku":"9780892633470","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/quotation-and-modern-american-poetry-imaginary-gardens-with-real-toads-9780892633470","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}