A Poverty of Objects: The Prose Poem and the Politics of Genre

The prose poem, Jonathan Monroe asserts, is the genre that does not want to be itself. In his view, the dominant literary historical role of the prose poem has been to test the limits of generic constraints. Monroe here undertakes a comparative and historical investigation of the problematic relatio...

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Main Author: Monroe, Jonathan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2019]
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Summary:The prose poem, Jonathan Monroe asserts, is the genre that does not want to be itself. In his view, the dominant literary historical role of the prose poem has been to test the limits of generic constraints. Monroe here undertakes a comparative and historical investigation of the problematic relationship between prose and poetry and of the development of the prose poem over the past two centuries
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource
ISBN:9781501746116
DOI:10.7591/9781501746116

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