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020 $a0820326631 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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100 1 $aGray, Jeffrey,$d1944-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2004030587
245 10 $aMastery's end :$btravel and postwar American poetry /$cJeffrey Gray.
260 $aAthens :$bUniversity of Georgia Press,$c[2005], ©2005.
300 $axiv, 288 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 267-280) and index.
505 00 $tPreface : points on a personal compass -- $tRoots and routes : the trouble with travel -- $tFalling off the round, turning world : Elizabeth Bishop's Tristes Tropiques -- $tInterlude : travelers and tourists : from Bishop to Lowell -- $tFear of flying : Robert Lowell and the trope of vulnerability -- $tInterlude : dandies and flaneurs : American poetry and the center-margin debate -- $tThe great escape : John Ashbery's travel agency -- $tShooting the gulf : three beat questions of travel -- $tThe problem of witness : the travels of Derek Walcott -- $tTravel and difference : Lyn Hejinian and Nathaniel Mackey -- $tEpilogue : the trouble with travel.
520 1 $a"Focusing on lyric poetry, Mastery's End looks at important, yet neglected, issues of subjectivity in post-World War II travel literature. Jeffrey Gray departs from related studies in two regards: nearly all recent scholarly books on the literature of travel have dealt with pre-twentieth-century periods, and all are concerned with narrative genres. Further, Gray questions whether the postcolonial theoretical model of travel as mastery, hegemony, and exploitation still applies. In its place he suggests a model of vulnerability, incoherence, and disorientation to reflect the modern destabilizing nature of travel, a condition that began with the unprecedented movement of people during and after World War II and has not abated since."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican poetry$xForeign influences.
650 0 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101081
650 0 $aAmericans$zForeign countries$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aTravelers in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008805
650 0 $aTravel in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85137162
650 0 $aForeign countries in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98003563
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0421/2004018183.html
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852 00 $bbar$hPS157$i.G73 2005