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Angela Sorby
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of New Hampshire
Publication date
February 24, 2005
Pages
233
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781584654575
ISBN-10
1584654570
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
1.15 lbs.
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Out of Print
Original list price
$55.00
Other format details
university press
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§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: As recently as the 1960s, children across America continued to recite in schoolrooms or on auditorium stages poems of strong emotional resonance such as "Paul Revere's Ride," "Little Orphan Annie," and "The Song of Hiawatha." Many still remember poems with soft rhythmic cadences such as "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" as bedtime verse read to them by their parents. According to Angela Sorby, these and hundreds of other child-oriented poems, written less for individual introspection than for public performance, became central components of American culture in the period between the Civil War and World War I. She identifies a "schoolroom canon" that some older Americans will still recognize, composed of poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Greenleaf Whittier, Eugene Field, James Whitcomb Riley, and others whose work was read, memorized, and repeated in pedagogical institutions nationwide. These poems, transmitted through schools, museums, lyceums, and theaters, as well as by newspapers and magazines, accrued cultural power through repetition; as they circulated, they functioned as mnemonic devices that established affective bonds between individuals, institutions, and the nation. Sorby's final chapter, on the child-voice poems of Emily Dickinson, argues that her reception history in the 1890s should be linked to the discourse of infantilization and pedagogy that dominated American popular poetry of the period and, to a great extent, continues to do so today.
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Hardcover
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from Univ of New Hampshire (February 24, 2005)
9781584654575 | details & prices | 233 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.15 lbs | List price $55.00
About: As recently as the 1960s, children across America continued to recite in schoolrooms or on auditorium stages poems of strong emotional resonance such as "Paul Revere's Ride," "Little Orphan Annie," and "The Song of Hiawatha.
About: As recently as the 1960s, children across America continued to recite in schoolrooms or on auditorium stages poems of strong emotional resonance such as "Paul Revere's Ride," "Little Orphan Annie," and "The Song of Hiawatha.
Paperback
from Univ of New Hampshire (February 24, 2005)
9781584654582 | details & prices | 233 pages | 5.75 × 9.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $27.95
About: Winner of the Children's Literature Association Honor Book (2007)As recently as the 1960s, children across America continued to recite in schoolrooms or on auditorium stages poems of strong emotional resonance such as âPaul Revereâs Ride,â âLittle Orphan Annie,â and âThe Song of Hiawatha.
About: Winner of the Children's Literature Association Honor Book (2007)As recently as the 1960s, children across America continued to recite in schoolrooms or on auditorium stages poems of strong emotional resonance such as âPaul Revereâs Ride,â âLittle Orphan Annie,â and âThe Song of Hiawatha.
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