Skip to main content

THE MURIEL RUKEYSER ERA: Copyright

THE MURIEL RUKEYSER ERA
Copyright

  • Show the following:

    Annotations
    Resources

  • Adjust appearance:

    Font
    Font style
    Color Scheme
    Light
    Dark
    Annotation contrast
    Low
    High
    Margins
  • Search within:
    • Notifications
    • Privacy
  • Project HomeThe Muriel Rukeyser Era
  • Projects
  • Learn more about Manifold

Notes

table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Epigraph
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments and Permissions
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. Note on This Textual Edition
  8. Editors’ Introduction
    1. All You Have to Do Is Challenge Them: The Muriel Rukeyser Era, Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein
  9. Author’s Introduction
    1. Biographical Statement for “Under Forty: A Symposium on American Literature and the Younger Generation of American Jews” (1944), Muriel Rukeyser
  10. PART I. THE USABLE TRUTH: FIVE TALKS ON COMMUNICATION AND POETRY
    1. 1. “The Fear of Poetry” (1940, 1941)
    2. 2. “The Speed of the Image” (1940)
    3. 3. “Belief and Poetry” (1940)
    4. 4. “Poetry and Peace” (1940)
    5. 5. “Communication and Poetry” (1940)
  11. PART II. TWENTIETH-CENTURY RADICALISM: ON POLITICS, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE
    1. 6. “The Flown Arrow: The Aftermath of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case” (1932)
    2. 7. “From Scottsboro to Decatur” (1933)
    3. 8. “Women and Scottsboro” (1933)
    4. 9. “Barcelona on the Barricades” (1936)
    5. 10. “Barcelona, 1936” (1936)
    6. 11. “Words and Images” (1943)
    7. 12. “War and Poetry” (1945)
    8. 13. “A Pane of Glass” (1953)
    9. 14. “She Came to Us” (1958)
    10. 15. “The Killing of the Children” (1973)
    11. 16. “The Uses of Fear” (1978)
  12. PART III. MEDIA AND DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION: A PHOTO-TEXT AND RADIO SCRIPTS
    1. 17. “So Easy to See” (1946), Photography-and-Text Collaboration with Berenice Abbott
    2. 18. From Sunday at Nine (1949), Scripts for Two Radio Broadcasts
      1. Series Introduction Episode One: Emily Dickinson
      2. Episode Four: The Blues
  13. PART IV. MODERNIST INTERVENTIONS: ON GENDER, POETRY, AND POETICS
    1. 19. “Modern Trends: American Poetry” (1932)
    2. 20. “Long Step Ahead Taken by Gregory in New Epic Poem” (1935), review of Horace Gregory’s Chorus for Survival
    3. 21. “In a Speaking Voice” (1939), review of Robert Frost’s Collected Poems
    4. 22. “The Classic Ground” (1941), review of Marya Zaturenska’s The Listening Landscape
    5. 23. “Nearer to the Well-Spring” (1943), review of Rainer Maria Rilke’s Sonnets to Orpheus
    6. 24. “A Simple Theme” (1949), review of Charlotte Marletto’s Jewel of Our Longing
    7. 25. “A Lorca Evening” (1951)
    8. 26. “Many Keys” (1957), on women’s poetry
    9. 27. “Lyrical ‘Rage’” (1957), review of Kenneth Rexroth’s In Defense of the Earth
    10. 28. “A Crystal for the Metaphysical” (1966), review of Marianne Moore’s Tell Me, Tell Me: Granite, Steel, and Other Topics
    11. 29. “Poetry and the Unverifiable Fact” (1968)
    12. 30. “The Music of Translation” (1971)
    13. 31. “Thoreau and Poetry” (1972)
    14. 32. “Glitter and Wounds, Several Wildnesses” (1973), review of Anne Sexton’s The Book of Folly
    15. 33. “The Life to Which I Belong” (1974), review of Franz Kafka’s Letters to Felice
    16. 34. “Women of Words: A Prefatory Note” (1974)
  14. Appendix: Bibliographic and Archival Information for Selections by Muriel Rukeyser
  15. Notes on Contributors
  16. Selected Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. Copyright

All material by Muriel Rukeyser © Muriel Rukeyser.

Reprinted by permission of the Estate of Muriel Rukeyser and ICM Partners.

Editors’ Introduction copyright © 2023 by Rowena Kennedy-Epstein and Eric Keenaghan.

Volume copyright © 2023 by Cornell University.

Full bibliographic information for texts by Muriel Rukeyser appears in the Appendix.

All other authors’ permissions appear in the Acknowledgments and Permissions.

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2023 by Cornell University Press.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913–1980, author. | Keenaghan, Eric, editor. | Kennedy-Epstein, Rowena, editor.

Title: The Muriel Rukeyser era : selected prose / Muriel Rukeyser; edited by Eric Keenaghan and Rowena Kennedy-Epstein.

Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2023011174 (print) | LCCN 2023011175 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501771743 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501771750 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501771774 (epub)

Subjects: LCSH: Rukeyser, Muriel, 1913–1980—Criticism and interpretation. | LCGFT: Creative nonfiction.

Classification: LCC PS3535.U4 M87 2023 (print) | LCC PS3535.U4 (ebook) | DDC 818/.5208—dc23/eng/20230515

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023011174

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023011175

Cover image: Muriel Rukeyser, The Four Fears (1955), gouache painting, 8.5” x 11”. Box II:20, Muriel Rukeyser Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Annotate

Previous
Powered by Manifold Scholarship. Learn more at
Opens in new tab or windowmanifoldapp.org