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Autore |
Retallack Joan |
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Titolo |
The Poethical Wager [[electronic resource]] |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-76239-7 |
9786612762390 |
0-520-93523-3 |
1-59734-811-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (293 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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809.93352042 |
809/.93352042 |
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Soggetti |
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Feminism and literature |
Literature and morals |
Literature, Modern |
Literature, Modern - History and criticism |
Women in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Essay as Wager; The Poethical Wager; Wager as Essay; Blue Notes on the Know Ledge; Poethics of the Improbable: Rosmarie Waldrop and the Uses of Form; The Experimental Feminine; The Scarlet Aitch: Twenty-Six Notes on the Experimental Feminine; :RE:THINKING:LITERARY:FEMINISM: (three essays onto shaky grounds); The Difficulties of Gertrude Stein, I & II; Four on Cage; Geometries of Attention; Fig. 1, Ground Zero, Fig. 2: John Cage-May 18, 2005; Poethics of a Complex Realism; UNCAGED WORDS: John Cage in Dialogue with Chance; Notes; Bibliography |
Acknowledgments of PermissionsIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In these highly inventive essays, Joan Retallack, acclaimed poet and essayist, conveys her unique post-utopian vision as she explores the relationship between art and life in today's chaotic world. In the |
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tradition of the essay as complex humanist exploration, she engages ideas from across history: Aristotle's definition of happiness, Epicurus's swerve into unpredictable possibility, Montaigne's essays as an instrument of self-invention, John Cage's redefinition of Silence. Within her unifying rubric of poethics, Retallack gives the reader plenty of surprises with a wonderful range of examples |
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