Muriel Rukeyser's the Book of the Dead
Tim Dayton
The Book of the Dead by Muriel Rukeyser was published as part of her 1938 volume U.S.1. The poem, which is probably the most ambitious and least understood work of Depression-era American verse, commemorates the worst industrial accident in U.S. history, the Gauley Tunnel tragedy. In this terrible disaster, an undetermined number of men—likely somewhere between 700 and 800—died of acute silicosis, a lung disorder caused by prolonged inhalation of silica dust, after working on a tunnel project in Fayette County, West Virginia, in the early 1930s.
After many years of relative neglect, The Book of the Dead has recently returned to print and has become the subject of critical attention. In Muriel Rukeyser's "The Book of the Dead," Tim Dayton continues that study by characterizing the literary and political world of Rukeyser at the time she wrote The Book of the Dead.
Rukeyser's poem clearly emerges from 1930s radicalism,...
카테고리:
년:
2015
출판사:
University of Missouri Press
언어:
english
ISBN 10:
0826263143
ISBN 13:
9780826263148
파일:
AZW3 , 353 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2015
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