Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem / / by Matthew Carbery

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910483179703321
• Autore: Carbery Matthew
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2019
• ISBN: 3-030-05002-5
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2019.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (XI, 235 p. 2 illus.)
• Collana: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, , 2634-6060
• Disciplina: 809.1; 811.5409
• Soggetti: Poetry; America - Literatures; Literature, Modern - 20th century; Poetry and Poetics; North American Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Coming To Terms With The American Long Poem— Introduction -- 2. Finding A Word For Ourselves — George Oppen’s Of Being Numerous -- 3. A Huge Companionship — Robin Blaser’s Image-Nations -- 4. A Grand Essay On Perception — Lyn Hejinian & Leslie Scalapino’s Sight -- 5. A Massive System of Urgency — Susan Howe’s Pierce Arrow -- 6. Adumbration Bound Our Book — Nathaniel Mackey’s 'Song of Andoumboulou' -- 7. The Book Withdraws Into Itself Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Drafts -- 8. An Ever-Renewed Experience Of Its Own Beginning — Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem reads major figures including Charles Olson, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey, Susan Howe and Rachel Blau DuPlessis within a new approach to the long poem tradition. Through a series of contextualised close readings, it explores the ways in which American poets developed their poetic forms by engaging with a variety of European phenomenologists, including Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, ; Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Consolidating recent materials on the role of Continental Philosophy in American poetics, this book explores the theoretical and historical contexts in which avant-garde poets have developed radically new methods of making poems long. Matthew Carbery offers a timely commentary on a number of major works of American poetry whilst providing ground-breaking research into the wider philosophical context of late twentieth-century poetic experimentation.