01675nam a2200349 a 4500 EDZ0000092250 StDuBDS 20150804193923.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 120702s2012 nyu fo| 001 0 eng|d 9780199950287 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS PS323.5 .R43 2012 811.509 23 Reddy, Srikanth, 1973- Changing subjects [electronic resource] : digressions in modern American poetry / Srikanth Reddy. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. 1 online resource. 'Changing Subjects' contends that major American poets-such as Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Lyn Hejinian-transformed verse and even changed conceptions of modern subjectivity by exploiting an ordinary rhetorical device ubiquitous in spoken language: the digression. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 9, 2012). Includes bibliographical references and index. American poetry 20th century History and criticism. Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972 Criticism and interpretation. Hejinian, Lyn Criticism and interpretation. Ashbery, John, 1927- Criticism and interpretation. Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 Influence. Digression (Rhetoric) in literature. Poetics. Print version 9780199791026 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199791026.001.0001 36756 36756