"American Poetry as Transactional Art explores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art. Specifically Fredman describes this role as the ways it consistently engages in conversation, talk, correspon...

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1. Verfasser:	Fredman, Stephen 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Tuscaloosa The University of Alabama Press [2020]
Schriftenreihe:	Modern and contemporary poetics
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1930-2000 Lyrik USA American poetry / 20th century / History and criticism Dialogue in literature Conversation in literature Experimental poetry / 20th century / History and criticism Literature and society / United States / History / 20th century American poetry Experimental poetry Literature and society United States 1900-1999 Criticism, interpretation, etc History
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Zusammenfassung:	"American Poetry as Transactional Art explores a salient quality of much avant-garde American poetry that has so far lacked sustained treatment: namely, its role as a transactional art. Specifically Fredman describes this role as the ways it consistently engages in conversation, talk, correspondence, going beyond the scope of its own subjects and forms-its existential interactions with the outside world. Poetry operating in this vein draws together images, ideas, practices, rituals, and verbal techniques from around the globe, and across time-not to equate them, but to establish dialogue, to invite as many guests as possible to the World Party, which Robert Duncan has called the "symposium of the whole.""--
Beschreibung:	xiii, 242 Seiten Illustrationen 23 cm
ISBN:	9780817359812