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050 00 $aPS3545.I544$bZ55 1994
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100 1 $aAhearn, Barry.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81087280
245 10 $aWilliam Carlos Williams and alterity :$bthe early poetry /$cBarry Ahearn.
260 $aCambridge [England] ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1994.
300 $axi, 183 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v75
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 174-175) and index.
505 0 $a1. Dr. Williams and Mr. Hyde -- 2. Love and Marriage -- 3. Social Diffraction -- 4. Formal Alterations -- 5. Metaphor, Metamorphosis -- 6. Fragments Shored -- Afterword: 1923-1963.
520 $aMany critics have noticed the paradoxes and contradictions in the work of William Carlos Williams, but few have analyzed them in detail. Professor Ahearn argues that Williams criticism has not gone far enough in recognizing the uses Williams saw for contradiction. He contends that Williams began to acquire his own voice as a poet when he recognized that he could be a vehicle for contending voices.
520 8 $aAhearn's reading departs from previous examinations of the early poetry in its emphasis on the poems as expressions of Williams's personal struggles with himself, his parents, his domestic role and his social position. We find a Williams whose contribution to modernism came not through a radical break with tradition or a rejection of inherited poetic norms alone, but rather in a cultivation of tension, conflict and a kind of poetic "crisis" that could be held forth as the metier of the modernist writer.
520 8 $aThe reconciliation of things as old as civilization itself with the newest form of poetry, Ahearn argues, is the principal theme of Williams's early poetic practice.
600 10 $aWilliams, William Carlos,$d1883-1963$xCriticism and interpretation.
650 0 $aModernism (Literature)$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008107886
650 0 $aContradiction in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003692
830 0 $aCambridge studies in American literature and culture ;$v75.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n83705629
852 00 $bglx$hPS3545.I544$iZ55 1994
852 00 $bbar$hPS3545.I544$iZ55 1994