The forms of youth : twentieth-century poetry and adolescence

The forms of youth : twentieth-century poetry and adolescence / Stephen Burt.

"Early in the twentieth century, Americans and other English-speaking nations began to regard adolescence as a separate phase of life. Associated with uncertainty, inwardness, instability, and sexual energy, adolescence acquired its own tastes, habits, subcultures, slang, economic interests, an...

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Main Author: Burt, Stephanie, 1971- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
1900-1999
Geschichte 1900-2000
English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Adolescence in literature.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Adolescence in literature
American poetry
English poetry
Intellectual life
Adolescentie.
Jeugd.
Gedichten.
Engels.
Amerikaans.
Jugend > Motiv > Lyrik > amerikanische.
Jugend > Motiv > Lyrik > englische.
Lyrik > amerikanische > Motiv > Jugend.
Lyrik > englische > Motiv > Jugend.
Amerikanisch.
Englisch.
Motiv (Literatur)
Jugend.
Lyrik.
Lyrik
Jugend > Motiv
Engelsk poesi > historia > 1900-talet.
Amerikansk poesi > historia > 1900-talet.
Ungdomar i litteraturen.
English-speaking countries > Intellectual life > 20th century.
English-speaking countries
USA
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Modernist poetics of adolescence
  • From schools to subcultures: adolescence in modern British poetry
  • Soldiers, babysitters, delinquents, and mutants: adolescence in midcentury American poetry
  • Are you one of those girls? Feminist poetics of adolescence
  • An excess of dreamy possibilities: Ireland and Australia
  • Midair: adolescence in contemporary American poetry.

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