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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786811503321

Autore

Robbins Amy Moorman <1970->

Titolo

American hybrid poetics : gender, mass culture, and form / / Amy Moorman Robbins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8135-6466-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 p.)

Collana

The American Literatures Initiative

Disciplina

811.009/9287

Soggetti

American poetry - Women authors - History and criticism

Poetics

Aesthetics in literature

Cultural fusion in literature

Women and literature - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Gertrude Stein's Blood on the Dining-Room Floor: Hybrid Poetics in Modernist/Mass Culture -- 2. Laura Mullen's Murmur: Crime Fiction, Cruel Optimism, and a Hybrid Poetics of Affect -- 3. Alice Notley's Disobedience: The Postmodern Subject, Paranoia, and a New Poetics of Noir -- 4. Harryette Mullen's Poetics in Prose: A Return to the Modernist Hybrid -- 5. Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely: A Lyrical Long Poem in a Post-Language Age -- Notes -- Index -- About the author

Sommario/riassunto

American Hybrid Poetics explores the ways in which hybrid poetics-a playful mixing of disparate formal and aesthetic strategies-have been the driving force in the work of a historically and culturally diverse group of women poets who are part of a robust tradition in contesting the dominant cultural order.  Amy Moorman Robbins examines the ways in which five poets-Gertrude Stein, Laura Mullen, Alice Notley, Harryette Mullen, and Claudia Rankine-use hybridity as an implicitly political strategy to interrupt mainstream American language, literary genres, and visual culture, and expose the ways in which mass culture



in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has had a powerfully standardizing impact on the collective American imagination. By forcing encounters between incompatible traditions-consumer culture with the avant-garde, low culture forms with experimental poetics, prose poetry with linguistic subversiveness-these poets bring together radically competing ideologies and highlight their implications for lived experience. Robbins argues that it is precisely because these poets have mixed forms that their work has gone largely unnoticed by leading members and critics in experimental poetry circles.