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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788325503321

Autore

Shaw Lytle

Titolo

Fieldworks [[electronic resource] ] : from place to site in postwar poetics / / Lytle Shaw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8173-8643-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (396 p.)

Collana

Modern and contemporary poetics

Disciplina

811/.5409358

Soggetti

American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Place (Philosophy) in literature

Setting (Literature)

Poetics - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: the penning of the field -- Boring location: from place to site in Williams and Smithson -- Olson's archives: fieldwork in new American poetry -- Everyday archaic: the space of ethnopoetics -- Baraka's Newark: performing the black arts -- Nonsite Bolinas: presence in the poets' polis -- Smithson's "Judd": androids in the expanded field -- Smithson's prose: the grounds of genre -- Faulting description: Mayer, Coolidge, and the site of scientific authority -- Docents of discourse: the logic of dispersed sites -- Afterword: measuring sites, unbinding measures.

Sommario/riassunto

Fieldworks   offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material   attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site.Arguing that place-oriented inquiries allowed poets and artists to  develop new, experimental models of historiography and ethnography,  Lytle Shaw draws out the shifting terms of this practice from World War  II to the present through a series of illuminating case studies.  Beginning with the alternate national genealogies unearthed by William  Carlos Williams in Paterson and Charles Olson in Gloucester, Shaw  demonstrates how