Author : Rachel Trousdale
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ISBN 13 : 9780191916274
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry by : Rachel Trousdale
Download or read book Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry written by Rachel Trousdale and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For poets slightly outside of the literary or social mainstream, humour encourages mutual understanding and empathic insight among artist, audience and subject. As a result, laughter helps poets reframe and reject literary, political and discursive hierarchies - whether to overturn those hierarchies, or to place themselves at the top. 'Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry' explores how American poets of the last hundred years have used laughter to create communities of readers and writers.