Rhetorics of literacy : the cultivation of American dialect poetry /

Rhetorics of literacy : the cultivation of American dialect poetry /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Nurhussein, Nadia, 1974-
Format: Book
Language:English
Subjects:
Dialect poetry, American > History and criticism.
American poetry > 19th century > History and criticism.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literacy in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • The difficulty of dialect poetry
  • Plain and peculiar dialects : Bret Harte and James Whitcomb Riley
  • Lettered dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar I
  • Cultivated dialect : Paul Laurence Dunbar II
  • Gendered dialect : Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Maggie Pogue Johnson
  • Annotated dialect : Claude McKay and Langston Hughes.