Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America

Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America
Author: Justin Parks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 239
Release: 2023-09-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1009347829

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Furnishing a novel take on the poetry of the 1930s within the context of the cultural history of the Depression, this book argues that the period's economic and cultural crisis was accompanied by an epistemological crisis in which cultural producers increasingly cast doubt on language in its ability to represent society.