Lyric eye : the poetics of twentieth-century surveillance.
Sumner, Tyne Daile.
Lyric eye : the poetics of twentieth-century surveillance. - [S.l.] : Routledge India, 2021. - 1 online resource
Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillancepresents the first detailed study of the relationship between poetry and surveillance. It critically examines the close connection between American lyric poetry and a burgeoning US state surveillance apparatus from 1920to the1960s. The book explores the myriad ways that poets--Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg and others--explored a developing and fraught environment in which the growing power of American investigative agencies, such as the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, imposed new pressures on cultural discourse and personal identity. In analysing twentieth-century American poetry and its various ideas about "the self,"Lyric Eyedemonstrates the extent to which poetry and surveillance employ similar styles of information-gathering such as observation, overhearing, imitation, abstraction, repurposing of language, subversion, fragmentation and symbolism. Ground-breaking and prescient, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, politics, surveillance and intelligence studies, and digital humanities.
9781000422276 1000422275 9781000421521 100042152X 9781003019954 1003019951
10.4324/9781003019954 doi
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic surveillance--History--United States--20th century.
Police patrol--Surveillance operations.--United States
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
PS78 / .S86 2021
811.509581
Lyric eye : the poetics of twentieth-century surveillance. - [S.l.] : Routledge India, 2021. - 1 online resource
Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth-Century Surveillancepresents the first detailed study of the relationship between poetry and surveillance. It critically examines the close connection between American lyric poetry and a burgeoning US state surveillance apparatus from 1920to the1960s. The book explores the myriad ways that poets--Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg and others--explored a developing and fraught environment in which the growing power of American investigative agencies, such as the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover, imposed new pressures on cultural discourse and personal identity. In analysing twentieth-century American poetry and its various ideas about "the self,"Lyric Eyedemonstrates the extent to which poetry and surveillance employ similar styles of information-gathering such as observation, overhearing, imitation, abstraction, repurposing of language, subversion, fragmentation and symbolism. Ground-breaking and prescient, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, politics, surveillance and intelligence studies, and digital humanities.
9781000422276 1000422275 9781000421521 100042152X 9781003019954 1003019951
10.4324/9781003019954 doi
American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
Electronic surveillance--History--United States--20th century.
Police patrol--Surveillance operations.--United States
LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
PS78 / .S86 2021
811.509581
