2020.11.27 教員著作図書
The Journal of Intercultural Studies / "Who the hell are you": Kenneth Fearing and the Effacement of Identity
著者?編者名 |
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Wayne E. Arnold |
所属(学部) |
外国語学部 |
発行年月 |
2014年 Number 39 |
出版社名 |
Kansai Gaidai University Publication |
内容 |
Kenneth Fearing is considered a minor poet of the 1920s and 30s New York circle of proletarian poets. At his peak, he published a variety of poems that captured the alienating powers of modern society. Using cynicism to analyze consumerism's influence on the individual, he focuses on the expiration of the individual's voice within a city subjective to capital-controlled mass production. A theme pervading his poems is the inability to attain significant interpersonal connections. This failure, I argue, results from mass media's infiltration into daily life and Fearing's characters exhibit an inability to communicate; instead, they suffer from a separation brought on by the consumer world around them and their own internal confusion. |
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