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Paradise and Method
Poetry and Praxis
Häftad, 1996
358 kr
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Andrews addresses - from a poet's perspective on how to understand and make use of contemporary practice - poetics and its role as a choreographer of discussions and theorizing about meaning. By focusing on the ways in which meaning is produced and challenged in contemporary literary work, Andrews …
Dance of the Intellect
Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition
Häftad, 1996
236 kr
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Must poetic form be, as Yeats demanded, "full, sphere-like, single," or can it accommodate the impurities Yeats and his Modernist generation found so problematic? Sixty years later, these are still open questions, questions Marjorie Perloff addresses in these essays.
Modernism, Dada, Postmodernism
Häftad, 1999
455 kr
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Modernism-Dada-Postmodernism collects, updates, integrates and contextualizes the critic Richard Sheppard's essays on the historical avant-garde. Sheppard's topic in all of these essays is the modernist writers', artists', and philosophers' linguistic and visual responses to a changed sense of …
Fishing by Obstinate Isles
Modern and Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers
Av Keith Tuma
Häftad, 1998
444 kr
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This is an investigation of modern British poetry and the ""death"" of that poetry in American critical circles. This text explores the complex relations of recent British and American poetries, challenging reductive American views of a British poetry dominated by anti-modernism while discussing …
Poetic Investigations
Singing the Holes in History
Av Paul Naylor
Häftad, 1999
358 kr
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This text studies five contemporary writers whose radical engagements with poetic form and political content shed new light on issues of race, class and gender. In a detailed reading of three American poets - Susan Howe, Nathaniel Mackey and Lyn Hejinian, and two Caribbean poets, Kamau Brathwaite …
Saying ""I"" No More
Subjectivity and Consciousness in the Prose of Samuel Beckett
Av Daniel Katz
Häftad, 1999
404 kr
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In recent criticism, Samuel Beckett's prose has been increasingly described as a labour of refusal - most notably seen by its literal disavowal of consciousness and expression as conventions in the narrative and the novel. Beginning from the premise that Beckett never betrays his belief in ""the …
Poetics of Indeterminacy
Rimbaud to Cage
Häftad, 1999
315 kr
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This study, first published in 1981, argues that the map of modernist poetry needs to be redrawn so as to include a central tradition that cannot properly be located within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition that dominated the early-20th century. Marjorie Perloff traces this tradition from its early …
Prior to Meaning
The Protosemantic and Poets
Häftad, 2001
404 kr
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In these essays McCaffrey works to undo the current bifurcation between theory and practice - to show how a poetic text might be the source rather than the product of the theoretical principles against which it must be read.
Pataphysics
The Poetics of an Imaginary Science
Häftad, 2001
315 kr
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A critical look at the historical and cultural implications of Alfred Jarry's pseudoscience, pataphysics 'Pataphysics, what Alfred Jarry calls ""the science of imaginary solutions,"" has until now gone largely ignored by literary scholars, due in part to its academic frivolity and hermetic …
Janus Face of the German Avant-garde
From Expressionism Toward Postmodernism
Inbunden, 2002
1417 kr
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Among the avant-garde of the early twentieth century, the German movement remains one of the least understood in the current avant-garde and modernism debates. Rainer Rumold fills this gap with a first large-scale reassessment of the heyday and afterlife of German expressionist and Dada productions …
Reading the Illegible
Häftad, 2003
476 kr
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A poet takes another's text, excises this, prints over that, cancels, erases, rearranges, defaces--and generally renders the original unreadable, at least in its original terms. What twentieth-century writers and artists have meant by such appropriations and violations, and how the "illegible" …
Brutt, or the Sighing Gardens
Av Friederike Mayrocker, Rainer Rumold
Häftad, 2007
315 kr
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Brutt, or The Sighing Gardens is the hallucinatory tale of an obsessive writer's love affair late in life as told through the daily journal entries of the writer - a montage of relentless observation interspersed with found materials from newspaper articles, literature, and private correspondence. …
Novas
Selected Writings
Av Haroldo De Campos, Antonio Sergio Bessa m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
450 kr
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A generous introduction to one of the key literary figures to emerge from Brazil in the second half of the twentieth century, this book offers English-speaking readers an ample selection of this prodigious writer's celebrated poetry and widely influential critical work. As a poet and as a cofounder …
Style and Time
Essays on the Politics of Appearance
Häftad, 2006
395 kr
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Interruption is often read as the foundational gesture of modernity - the means through which modernity asserts its existence by claiming its discontinuity with the past. Exposing the limitations of such an understanding, this book offers a very different approach: here, modernity is the site that …
Contemporary Poetics
Av Louis Armand
Häftad, 2007
480 kr
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Exploring the boundaries of one of the most contested fields of literary study - a field that in fact shares territory with philology, aesthetics, cultural theory, philosophy, and even cybernetics - this volume gathers a body of critical writings that, taken together, broadly delineate a possible …
Reveries of the Wild Woman
Primal Scenes
Häftad, 2006
293 kr
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All the time when I lived in Algeria, my native country, I dreamt of one day arriving in Algeria. Born in Oran, Algeria, Helene Cixous spent her childhood in France's former colony. ""Reveries of the Wild Woman"" is her visceral memoir of a preadolescence that shaped her with intense feelings of …
Day I Wasn't There
Häftad, 2006
250 kr
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In this memoir-novel, a narrator who resembles Helene Cixous obsessively recounts an incident - the premature death of her first-born child, a Down syndrome baby left in the care of the clinic in Algeria where her midwife mother works. She uses this event to probe her family history and her …
Guy Davenport
Postmodernism and After
Inbunden, 2007
795 kr
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Guy Davenport (1927-2005), an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a breadth and depth of knowledge to his pursuits that few other writers could approach, let alone appraise. In Andre Furlani, this twentieth-century …
Guy Davenport
Postmodernism and After
Häftad, 2007
328 kr
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Guy Davenport (1927-2005), an American writer of fiction, poetry, criticism, and essays, a translator, painter, intellectual, and teacher, brought a breadth and depth of knowledge to his pursuits that few other writers could approach, let alone appraise. In Andre Furlani, this twentieth-century …
Visions of Violence
German Avant-gardes After Fascism
Inbunden, 2007
1582 kr
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Nazi Germany's book burnings, its campaign against ""degenerate art,"" and its persecution of experimental artists pushed the avant-garde to the brink of extinction. How the avant-garde came back, finding a new purpose in the wake of the war, is the subject of ""Visions of Violence"". An extreme …
Singular Examples
Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde
Av Tyrus Miller
Inbunden, 2009
1391 kr
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This book focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial 'compositions' - verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematic - of the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. It also considers the artistic politics of these postwar avant-gardes and their works. The book's …
Singular Examples
Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde
Av Tyrus Miller
Häftad, 2009
403 kr
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This book focuses on the integral, interdisciplinary, and intermedial 'compositions' - verbal, visual, musical, theatrical, and cinematic - of the avant-gardes in the period following World War II. It also considers the artistic politics of these postwar avant-gardes and their works. The book's …
Gertrude Stein
The Language That Rises - 1923-1934
Av Ulla E. Dydo
Häftad, 2008
508 kr
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The first extensive examination of Stein's notebooks, manuscripts and letters, prepared over a period of twenty years, Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises asks new questions and explores new ways of reading Stein. This definitive study give us a finely detailed, deeply felt understanding of …
Constraining Chance
Georges Perec and the Oulipo
Av Alison James
Häftad, 2009
476 kr
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A token of the world's instability and of human powerlessness, chance is inevitably a crucial literary theme. It also presents formal problems: Must the artist struggle against chance in pursuit of a flawless work? Or does chance have a place in the artistic process or product? This book examines …
Oyvind Fahlstrom
The Art of Writing
Inbunden, 2008
1557 kr
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Oyvind Fahlstrom (1928-76), the Brazilian-born Swedish multi-artist, is one of the mid-twentieth century's most intriguing cultural figures. His work, as profoundly political as it is aesthetic, spans two tumultuous decades in the avant-garde world and comprises concrete poetry (his own …
Opposing Poetries Pt. 1; Issues and Institutions
Av Hank Lazer
Inbunden, 1996
976 kr
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This volume presents a selection of nine years of Hank Lazer's writing on a range of issues in contemporary American poetry. These essays are a kind of temporal cubism, a shifting but repeated focus on several key issues: the consequences of poetry's institutionalization; the pedagogic and …
Opposing Poetries Pt. 1; Issues and Institutions
Av Hank Lazer
Häftad, 1996
315 kr
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This volume presents a selection of nine years of Hank Lazer's writing on a range of issues in contemporary American poetry. These essays are a kind of temporal cubism, a shifting but repeated focus on several key issues: the consequences of poetry's institutionalization; the pedagogic and …
Paradise and Method
Poetry and Praxis
Inbunden, 1996
976 kr
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Andrews addresses - from a poet's perspective on how to understand and make use of contemporary practice - poetics and its role as a choreographer of discussions and theorizing about meaning. By focusing on the ways in which meaning is produced and challenged in contemporary literary work, Andrews …
Lines of Desire
Reading Gombrowicz's Fiction with Lacan
Inbunden, 1998
1299 kr
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This is an original analysis of the novels of Gombrowicz, a fascinating figure of the 20th-century European avante-garde. Berressem examines the novels in light of both contemporary literary theory and Lacanian psychoanalysis. With its plot summaries and structural ""blueprints"" of the novels …
Opposing Poetries Pt. 2; Readings
Av Hank Lazer
Inbunden, 1996
976 kr
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This volume presents a selection of nine years of Hank Lazer's writing on a range of issues in contemporary American poetry. These essays are a kind of temporal cubism, a shifting but repeated focus on several key issues: the consequences of poetry's institutionalization; the pedagogic and …
