The point is to change it: poetry and criticism in the continuing present
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Main Author: McGann, Jerome J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press ©2007
Series:Modern and contemporary poetics
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-234) and index
Philological investigations -- Truth in the body of falsehood -- The alphabet, spelt from Silliman's leaves -- The apparatus of loss : Bruce Andrews writing -- Art and error, with special thanks to the poetry of Robert Duncan -- Private enigmas and critical functions, with special thanks to the poetry of Charles Bernstein -- From Sight to Shenandoah -- Marxism, romanticism, postmodernism : an American case history -- Looney tunes and unheard melodies : an Oulipian colonescapade, with a critique of "The great-ape love song corpus" and its lexicon -- The evidence of things not seen : a play -- Ivanhoe : a playful portrait -- Modernity and complicity : a conversation with Johanna Drucker
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. This book focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 242 pages)
ISBN:0817381449
9780817381448

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