Mastery's end : travel and postwar American poetry
"Focusing on lyric poetry, Mastery's End looks at important, yet neglected, issues of subjectivity in post-World War II travel literature. Jeffrey Gray departs from related studies in two regards: nearly all recent scholarly books on the literature of travel have dealt with pre-twentieth-century periods, and all are concerned with narrative genres. Further, Gray questions whether the postcolonial theoretical model of travel as mastery, hegemony, and exploitation still applies. In its place he suggests a model of vulnerability, incoherence, and disorientation to reflect the modern destabilizing nature of travel, a condition that began with the unprecedented movement of people during and after World War II and has not abated since."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xiv, 288 pages ; 24 cm
9780820326634, 0820326631
56104160
Roots and routes : the trouble with travel
Falling off the round, turning world : Elizabeth Bishop's Tristes tropiques
Interlude : travelers and tourists : from Bishop to Lowell
Fear of flying : Robert Lowell and the Trope of vulnerability
Interlude : dandies and flaneurs : American poetry and the center-margin debate
The great escape : John Ashbery's Travel Agency
Shooting the Gulf : three beat questions of travel
The problem of witness : the travels of Derek Walcott
Travel and difference : Lyn Hejinian and Nathaniel Mackey
Epilogue : the trouble with travel