Changing Subjects
Author | : Srikanth Reddy |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2012-07-12 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780199791026 |
ISBN-13 | : 0199791023 |
Rating | : 4/5 (023 Downloads) |
Download or read book Changing Subjects written by Srikanth Reddy and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing Subjects contends that major American poets-such as Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery, and Lyn Hejinian-transformed verse and even changed conceptions of modern subjectivity by exploiting an ordinary rhetorical device, ubiquitous in spoken language: the digression.