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How to (re)write the past: thinking about history in American avant-garde poetry

This postdoc. project investigates how American avant-garde poets (William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, Susan Howe) have thought about the nature and the representation of the past. ItU+2019s a commonplace that twentieth-century American historians, in contrast to their European colleagues, have devoted litte attention to the idea of history. This project traces an American meta-historical debate in the work of three U+2018poet historiansU+2019.

Date:1 Oct 2010 →  30 Sep 2017
Keywords:American literature, philosophy of history, history, avant-garde poetry
Disciplines:Philosophy, Historical theory and methodology, General pedagogical and educational sciences, Language studies, Communication sciences, Theory and methodology of literary studies, Other languages and literary studies, Theory and methodology of language studies, Literary studies, Theory and methodology of linguistics