American Comic Poetry : History, Techniques and Modern Masters

Morgan, Jeff

McFarland & Co Inc（2015/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 196 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780786499847
• DDC分類 811.00917

Full Description

Comic poetry is serious stuff, combining incongruity, satire and psychological effects to provide us a brief victory over reason--which could help us save ourselves, if not the world. This book champions the literary movement of comic poetry in the U.S., providing an historical context and exploring the work of such writers as Denise Duhamel, Campbell McGrath, Billy Collins, Thomas Lux and Tony Hoagland. Their techniques reveal how they make us laugh while addressing important social concerns.

Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword: The Best of All Medicines by Michael Hettich

Preface

Introduction

The Intellectual Approach

The Functional Approach

The Psychological Approach

1. A Brief History of American Comic Literature

Colonial and ­Pre-Colonial American Comic Literature

The Revolting Period

Early ­Post-Colonial Era

James Russell Lowell

The Flowering of the Comic Voice

Early ­Twentieth Century

Dorothy Parker

Ogden Nash

Late Twentieth Century

2. The Long and Short of It

Denise Duhamel, Comic Prose Poetry and the ­Three-Pronged Approach

Campbell McGrath's "Ode to Bureacrats" and the ­Three-Pronged Approach

3. Billy Collins and the Intellectual Approach

4. Thomas Lux and the Functional Approach

5. Tony Hoagland and the Psychological Approach

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index