Mastery's End: Travel and Postwar American Poetry

by Jeffrey Gray

Focusing on lyric poetry, Mastery's End looks at important, yet neglected, issues of subjectivity in post-World War II travel literature. Jeffrey Gray departs from related studies in two regards: nearly all recent scholarly books on the literature of travel have dealt with pre-twentieth-century periods, and all are concerned with narrative genres. Gray questions whether the postcolonial theoretical model of travel as mastery, hegemony, and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820326631
• ISBN13: 9780820326634
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"