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Poetry and the Limits of Modernity in Depression America investigates the complex relationship between modernist poetics and the social upheaval of the 1930s. Justin Parks analyzes how American poets navigated the constraints of high modernism while confronting the economic crisis and political urgency of the Depression era.
The book argues that Depression-era poets pushed back against modernist isolation, seeking ways to make their work politically and socially relevant without abandoning artistic sophistication. Parks examines key figures and movements within this period, demonstrating how the Depression fundamentally reshaped American literary culture. Through close readings of major works, the study reveals how poets reconciled formal innovation with the demand for socially engaged art, establishing new aesthetic possibilities for twentieth-century American literature.
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