"To Mean What Once We Said": Richard Wilbur Celebrates the Fourth of July
This paper develops an intertextual reading of Richard Wilbur's "The Fourth of July," addressing two key topics. Most of the poem develops an allusive and nuanced consideration of the ways in which practices of naming shape and are shaped by contingent human attitudes and behaviors. W...
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Tipo de documento: | Electrónico Artículo |
Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
[2020]
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Christianity & literature
Año: 2020, Volumen: 69, Número: 4, Páginas: 549-567 |
Clasificaciones IxTheo: | CD Cristianismo ; Cultura CG Cristianismo y política KAJ Época contemporánea KBQ América del Norte |
Otras palabras clave: | B
Richard Wilbur
B Language B Civil Rights B Naming |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
Sumario: | This paper develops an intertextual reading of Richard Wilbur's "The Fourth of July," addressing two key topics. Most of the poem develops an allusive and nuanced consideration of the ways in which practices of naming shape and are shaped by contingent human attitudes and behaviors. Wilbur's treatment of this first topic provides a context for his measured approach to the second, the persistence in "the land of the free" of injustices rationalized with regard to differences of skin color. |
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ISSN: | 2056-5666 |
Obras secundarias: | Enthalten in: Christianity & literature
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/chy.2020.0066 |