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BL
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722143
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b541853
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| Main Entry
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Chris Green.
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| Title & Author
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The social life of poetry : : Appalachia, race, and radical modernism\ Chris Green.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed
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| Publication Statement
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New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
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| Series Statement
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Modern and contemporary poetry and poetics.
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| Page. NO
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(xiv, 279 pages) : illustrations
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| ISBN
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0230101690
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: 1349376566
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: 9780230101692
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: 9781349376568
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| Contents
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Appalachia, race, and pluralism --;Evangelizing an Anglo equality (1883-1908) --;New York City's cultural pluralists (1906-1930) --;Reactionary regionalism versus critical quarterlies (1925-1945) --;The social life of poetry --;Racing the land with Jesse Stuart's Man with a bull tongue plow (1934) --;"Authentic folk feeling" in James Still's Hounds on the mountain (1937) --;Rebinding "The book of the dead" into Muriel Rukeyser's U.S. 1 (1938) --;The tight rope of democracy and Don West's Clods of southern earth (1946).
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| Abstract
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Drawing upon archival research and deft close readings of poems, Part Two (1934-1946) delves into the inner-workings of literary history and shows how diverse alliances used four books of poetry about Appalachia to change America s notion of race, region, and pluralism.
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American poetry -- Appalachian Region -- History and criticism.
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European Americans -- Race identity.
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| LC Classification
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PS323.5C475 2009
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Chris Green
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