Binding: Paperback
Description: Lyric Eye: The Poetics of Twentieth - Century Surveillance presents the first detailed study of the relationship between poetry and surveillance. It critically examines the close connection between American lyric poetry and a burgeoning US state surveillance apparatus from 1920 to the 1960s. The book explores the myriad ways that poets Ezra Pound William Carlos Williams W. H. Auden Langston Hughes James Baldwin Sylvia Plath Gertrude Stein Robert Lowell Allen Ginsberg and others explored a developing and fraught environment in which the growing power of American investigative agencies such as the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover imposed new pressures on cultural discourse and personal identity. In analysing twentieth - century American poetry and its various ideas about "the self " Lyric Eye demonstrates the extent to which poetry and surveillance employ similar styles of information - gathering such as observation overhearing imitation abstraction repurposing of language subversion fragmentation and symbolism. Ground - breaking and prescient this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature politics surveillance and intelligence studies and digital humanities.
Title: Lyric Eye The Poetics Of Twentieth - Century Surveillance
Author(s): Sumner Tyne Daile (The University Of Melbourne Australia)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032052083
Pages: 204 Pages
Publication Date: 8/6/2021
Category: Political Structure & Processes