The Cambridge history of American literature / Vol. 8, Poetry and criticism, 1940-1995

Part I. Poetry, Politics, and Intellectuals / Robert Von Hallberg: 1. The place of poetry in the Culture, 1945-1950

2. Politics

3. Rear-guards

4. Avant-gardes

5. Authenticity

6. Translation

Conclusion: the place of poets 1995

Appendix I: Biographies of Poets

Part II. Criticism Since 1940 / Evan Carton and Gerald Graff: Introduction

1. Politics and American criticism

2. The emergence of academic criticism

3. The nationalising of the new criticism

4. The canon, the academy, and gender

5. Deconstruction and post-structuralism

6. From textuality to materiality

7. Cultural and historical studies

Conclusion: academic criticism and its discontents

Appendix II: Biographies of critics

Chronology 1940-1945

Bibliography