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Artifice and Indeterminacy
An Anthology of New Poetics
Häftad, 2007
510 kr
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Artifice and Indeterminacy gathers the strongest and most representative writings of the past two decades and shows more clearly than ever before the depth and breadth of contemporary American poetics. Collectively, these essays break with conventional interpretive frameworks and traditional …
Objectivist Nexus
Essays in Cultural Poetics
Av Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Peter Quartermain
Häftad, 1999
510 kr
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This volume presents cultural readings of the objectivist poets, a group characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological view. The essays analyze and evaluate objectivist politics, and focus on the ethical, spiritual, and religious issues raised by objectivist affiliations with Judaism.
Translating the Unspeakable
Poetry and the Innovative Necessity
Häftad, 1999
380 kr
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A prominent avant-garde poet charts both her personal artistic development and the difficulties faced by women writers pursuing innovative paths.An accomplished and influential poet, Kathleen Fraser has been instrumental in drawing attention to other women poets working outside the mainstream. …
Extraordinary Measures
Afrocentric Modernism and 20th Century American Poetry
Häftad, 2000
314 kr
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African American poetry exhibits an impressive range of style and substance, in all its forms. This history of the genre offers a critical reassessment of its development in the 20th century, within the contexts of modernism and the troubled racial history of the United States.
Everybody's Autonomy
Connective Reading and Collective Identity
Häftad, 2001
314 kr
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Experimental texts empower the reader by encouraging self-governing approaches to reading and by placing the reader on equal footing with the author. Everybody's Autonomy is about reading and identity. Contemporary avant garde writing has often been overlooked by those who study literature and …
Digital Poetics
The Making of E-poetries
Häftad, 2008
445 kr
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In Digital Poetics, Loss Glazier argues that the increase in computer technology and accessibility, specifically the World Wide Web, has created a new and viable place for the writing and dissemination of poetry. Glazier's work not only introduces the reader to the current state of electronic …
We Who Love to Be Astonished
Experimental Women's Writing and Performance Poetics
Av Laura Hinton, Cynthia Hogue
Häftad, 2001
443 kr
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We Who Love to Be Astonished collects a powerful group of previously unpublished essays to fill a gap in the critical evaluation of women's contributions to postmodern experimental writing. Contributors include Alan Golding, Aldon Nielsen, and Rachel Blau DuPlessis; discussions include analyses of …
Telling It Slant
Avant-garde Poetics of the 1990s
Häftad, 2001
510 kr
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Political commentary is possible through ""variety"" theatre, this volume contends. Compiled from the April 2000 Theatre Symposium held on the campus of the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, this collection of essays presents a compelling mix of theoretical and practical viewpoints from a broad …
Led by Language
The Poetry and Poetics of Susan Howe
Häftad, 2002
443 kr
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In Led by Language, poet and scholar Rachel Tzvia Back offers a close and detailed reading of Susan Howe's provocative and powerful poetry. Howe's work is dense, often difficult, but always distinctive, and Back's volume explains a number of features crucial to understanding her poems. In this …
Simulcast
Four Experiments in Criticism
Inbunden, 2004
500 kr
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This study offers an overview of avant-garde American poetry of the latter 20th century - a flourishing movement in American letters. The four ""experiments"" in literary criticism vary in style and viewpoint. Taken together, they reassess the fundamental relationship between poetry and criticism.
Architectural Body
Inbunden, 2002
588 kr
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This manifesto is a verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another.: This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural …
Architectural Body
Häftad, 2002
251 kr
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This manifesto is a verbal articulation of the authors' visionary theory of how the human body, architecture, and creativity define and sustain one another.: This revolutionary work by artist-architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins demonstrates the inter-connectedness of innovative architectural …
Integral Music
Languages of African American Innovation
Inbunden, 2004
346 kr
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Aldon Nielsen's book Black Chant: Languages of African American Postmodernism (Cambridge University Press, 1997) was a ground-breaking work of scholarship that examined modern and postmodern developments in the work of African American poets since the Second World War and their contributions to …
Ashbery's Forms of Attention
Inbunden, 2006
459 kr
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Andrew DuBois assesses John Ashbery's career as a poet in the context of changes in 20th-century aesthetics, the rise of the information age, and the proliferation of aural and visual stimuli. The issue of attention, he argues, is useful not only for understanding the problems of perception and …
Finding the Weight of Things
Larry Eigner's Ecrippoetics
Av George Hart
Häftad, 2022
445 kr
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Larry Eigner (1927–1996) wrote thousands of poems in his lifetime, despite profound physical limitations caused by cerebral palsy. Using only the thumb and index finger of his right hand, Eigner generated a torrent of urgent and rich language, participating in vital correspondences as well as …
Simulcast
Four Experiments in Criticism
Häftad, 2004
443 kr
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This study offers an overview of avant-garde American poetry of the latter 20th century - a flourishing movement in American letters. The four ""experiments"" in literary criticism vary in style and viewpoint. Taken together, they reassess the fundamental relationship between poetry and criticism.
Emancipating Pragmatism
Emerson, Jazz, and Experimental Writing
Häftad, 2004
380 kr
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Emancipating Pragmatism is a radical rereading of Emerson that posits African-American culture, literature, and jazz as the very continuation and embodiment of pragmatic thought and democratic tradition. It traces Emerson's philosophical legacy through the 19th and 20th centuries to discover how …
Integral Music
Languages of African American Innovation
Häftad, 2004
330 kr
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Aldon Nielsen's book Black Chant: Languages of African American Postmodernism (Cambridge University Press, 1997) was a ground-breaking work of scholarship that examined modern and postmodern developments in the work of African American poets since the Second World War and their contributions to …
This Is Called Moving
A Critical Poetics of Film
Häftad, 2005
411 kr
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As the writer, director, producer, and cinematographer of almost all her 30 films, videos, and shorts, Abigail Child has been recognized as a major and influential practitioner of experimental cinema since the early 1970s. Hallmarks of her style are the appropriation and reassembly of found footage …
Dissonance (if You Are Interested)
Häftad, 2005
510 kr
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Incisive essays on modern poetry and translation by a noted poet, translator, and critic. As an immigrant to the United States from Germany, Rosmarie Waldrop has wrestled with the problems of language posed by the discrepancies between her native and adopted tongues, and the problems of translating …
Poetics of Impasse in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry
Häftad, 2005
443 kr
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A work in which a noted critic addresses the problem of silence in contemporary experimental poetry. Silence, as Susan M Schultz argues, is an intellectual and aesthetic force, largely unacknowledged, that is a characteristic feature of much avant-garde poetry, from Hart Crane to Susan Howe; a …
Blue Studios
Poetry and Its Cultural Work
Häftad, 2006
510 kr
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In her now-classic, ""The Pink Guitar"", Rachel Blau DuPlessis examined a number of modern and contemporary poets and artists to explore the possibility of finding a language that would question deeply held assumptions about gender. In the 12 essays and introduction that constitute ""Blue …
Point Is to Change It
Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present
Häftad, 2007
445 kr
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In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because …
Prehistoric Digital Poetry
An Archaeology of Forms, 1959-1995
Häftad, 2007
510 kr
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For the last five decades, poets have had a vibrant relationship with computers and digital technology. This book is a documentary study and analytic history of digital poetry that highlights its major practitioners and the ways that they have used technology to foster a new aesthetic. Focusing …
Alphabet
Av Ron Silliman
Häftad, 2008
510 kr
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The Alphabet is a remarkable and notorious literary achievement, decades in the making, one continually debated, discussed, and imitated since fragments of it first appeared in the 1970s. Consisting of twenty-six smaller books, one for each letter of the alphabet, it employs language in ways that …
Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture
Av Stephen Miller, Daniel Morris
Häftad, 2009
510 kr
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What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"--Franz KafkaKafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers better …
Radical Affections
Essays on the Poetics of Outside
Häftad, 2011
510 kr
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In 1950 the poet Charles Olson published his influential essay “Projective Verse” in which he proposed a poetry of “open field” composition—to replace traditional closed poetic forms with improvised forms that would reflect exactly the content of the poem.The poets and poetry that have followed in …
Stubborn Poetries
Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde
Häftad, 2013
510 kr
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Stubborn Poetries is a study of poets whose work, because of its difficulty, apparent obduracy, or simple resistance to conventional explication, remains more-or-less firmly outside the canon.The focus of the essays in Stubborn Poetries by Peter Quartermain is on nonmainstream poets--often unknown, …
Reading the Difficulties
Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry
Av Thomas Fink, Judith Halden-Sullivan
Häftad, 2014
445 kr
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The bold essays that make up Reading the Difficulties offer case studies in and strategies for reading innovative poetry.Definitions of what constitutes innovative poetry are innumerable and are offered from every quarter. Some critics and poets argue that innovative poetry concerns free …
Contemporaries and Snobs
Av Laura Riding, Jane Malcolm m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
445 kr
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This new edition of Contemporaries and Snobs, a landmark collection of essays by Laura Riding, offers a counter-history of high modernist poetics. Laura Riding’s Contemporaries and Snobs (1928) was the first volume of essays to engage critically with high modernist poetics from the position of the …
