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Modern American Poetry

Points of Access

Herausgeber: Freitag, Kornelia | Reed, Brian

anglistik & englischunterricht, Bd. 79

2013

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Abstract

How to read – and how to teach poetry? The present volume on ‘Modern American Poetry’ assembles ten essays that distill and share tips, facts, arguments, interpretations, and techniques that a number of German and American scholars believe to be helpful when reading and teaching American poetry. The essays introduce topics such as the poetry of war and postmodern poetic experimentation, dwell on teaching Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Frank O’Hara, and relate the experiences of translating texts by the African American poet June Jordan in the classroom. Imagism and confessionalism are re-negotiated while more recent developments, such as slam poetics and South Asian diasporic verse are introduced. All essays share a single goal: to provide ‘Points of Access’ for interested readers and especially instructors to transform an exciting, chaotic, contested field of study into lessons that are enlightening and, ideally, enjoyable.

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Contents 5
Kornelia Freitag, Brian M. Reed - Introduction: How to Read 7
Lisa Simon - Teaching War Poetry: A Dialogue Between the Grit and the Glory 17
Sabine Sielke - On the Challenges and Rewards of Teaching and Studying Emily Dickinson 37
Susanne Rohr - On Being in Love with the World: Gertrude Stein's "Tender Buttons" 59
Wolfgang Wicht - "Language is made out of concrete things": The Imagist Movement and the Beginning of Anglo-American Modernism 79
Brian M. Reed - Confessional Poetry: Staging the Self 99
Heinz Ickstadt - Frank O'Hara and the "New York School": Poetry and Painting in the 1950s 115
David Huntsperger - Postmodern Poetic Form in the Classroom 139
Walter Grünzweig, Julia Sattler - People's Poetry: Translation as a Collective Experience 157
Kornelia Freitag - Contemporary Indian-American Poetry: At the Crossroads of Cultures 175
Martina Pfeiler - No Rules But in Schools?: Teaching and Learning from Slam Poetry 195