1st Edition
Boasian Verse The Poetic and Ethnographic Work of Edward Sapir, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead
Introduction
1. Soothing Blindness, Piercing Insight: Ruth Benedict’s Verse
Concealing Disclosures
Yearning for Lost Plenitude
Of Syncretisms, Foils, and Cautionary Examples
2. Margaret Mead: How to Make It New, Differently
Reinventing the Social World
Toward an Anthropology of the Senses
The Public and the Private, In and Out of Verse
3. Exerting Poetic License: Edward Sapir’s Poetry
Little Canadian Flowers
Poetry Magazine
Playing Seriously with Genres
Of Desert Sirens
Conclusion
Biography
Philipp Schweighauser is Professor of North American and General Literature at the University of Basel, Switzerland. He received his PhD in Anglophone Literary Studies from the same university. After a research stay at the University of California, Irvine (2000–2001), a postdoc position at the University of Berne (2003–2007), and an assistant professorship at the University of Göttingen (2007–2009), he returned to the University of Basel in 2009. From 2012 to 2020, Schweighauser served as the president of the Swiss Association for North American Studies. He is the co-editor of eight edited volumes or special issues and the author of two monographs: Beautiful Deceptions: European Aesthetics, the Early American Novel, and Illusionist Art (U of Virginia P, 2016) and The Noises of American Literature, 1890–1985: Toward a History of Literary Acoustics (UP Florida, 2006).
