Humor, Empathy, and Community in Twentieth-Century American Poetry
Author | : Rachel Trousdale |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2021 |
ISBN-10 | : 0191916277 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780191916274 |
Rating | : 4/5 (274 Downloads) |
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.