Randall Jarrell and His AgeColumbia University Press, 2005 M04 6 - 320 páginas Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) was the most influential poetry critic of his generation. He was also a lyric poet, comic novelist, translator, children's book author, and close friend of Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Hannah Arendt, and many other important writers of his time. Jarrell won the 1960 National Book Award for poetry and served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress. Amid the resurgence of interest in Randall Jarrell, Stephen Burt offers this brilliant analysis of the poet and essayist. |
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... (Pictures 176). Far from affirming a complacent, unchanging self (a self that is the possessor of possessions), Jarrell often defends a self he sees as nearly powerless against social forces - against the disempowerment of the.
... ( Pictures 151 ) . Children matter to Jarrell not least because they are guaranteed to change ; Jarrell's adults fear that they have become fixed , identical with mere social roles , so that the only change left for them is death ...
... Pictures from an Institution . Chapter 3 considers psychoanalytic models of the self- conscious and unconscious , dreaming and waking . Indebted to 1930s Gestalt theory , to Freud and to Freud's heirs , Jarrell reimagined the ...
... picture show being made last Monday and Sunday night . They made it in a big concrete bowl and they had dogs and Eskimos and igloos and icebergs and snow in it . They had a snowstorm . They threw Christmas tree stuff in front of an ...
... Pictures from an Institution , which he planned to dedicate to Arendt ( Remembering 1 ) . Jarrell worked hard and well finding and editing poetry and book reviews for the Nation , though he liked to complain about the job : " I've had ...
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112 | |
Institutions Professions Criticism | |
Psychology and Psychoanalysis | |
Time and Memory | |
Childhood and Youth | |
Men Women Children Families | |
What We See and Feel and Are | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |