Hart Crane & Allen Tate: Janus-Faced Modernism

by Langdon Hammer

Book Overview

Focusing on the vexed friendship between Hart Crane and Allen Tate, this book examines twentieth-century American poetry's progress toward institutional sanction and professional organization, a process in which sexual identities, poetic traditions, and literary occupations were in question and at stake. Langdon Hammer combines biography and formalist analysis to argue that American modernism was a Janus-faced phenomenon, at once emancipatory and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691068771
• ISBN13: 9780691068770
• Release Date: June 1993
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.5" x 9.6"