A Tradition of Subversion: The Prose Poem in English from Wilde to Ashbery

By Margueritte S. Murphy

From its inception in 19th-century France, the prose poem has embraced an aesthetic of shock and innovation rather than tradition and convention. In this suggestive study, Marguerite S. Murphy both explores the history of this genre in Anglo-American literature and provides a model for reading the prose poem, irrespective of language or national literature.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870237810
• ISBN13: 9780870237812
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher