Poetic machinations :: allegory, surrealism, and postmodern poetic form /

The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing their form with as much meaning as their content. Through a survey of American poetry and poetics from the end of World War II to the present, Michael Golston traces the proliferation of these experiments to a...

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Main Author: Golston, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2015.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing their form with as much meaning as their content. Through a survey of American poetry and poetics from the end of World War II to the present, Michael Golston traces the proliferation of these experiments to a growing fascination with allegory in philosophy, linguistics, critical theory, and aesthetics, introducing new strategies for reading American poetry while embedding its formal innovations within the history of intellectual thought. Beginning with Walter Benjamin's explicit understanding of Surrea.
Physical Description:1 online resource (266 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780231538633
0231538634

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