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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808352403321

Autore

Davidson Michael <1944->

Titolo

On the outskirts of form : practicing cultural poetics / / Michael Davidson ; designed by Katherine B. Kimball

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middleton, Connecticut : , : Wesleyan University Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-283-30932-7

9786613309327

0-8195-7137-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (599 p.)

Disciplina

808.1

Soggetti

Poetics

Poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Literature, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism

Literature, Modern - 21st century - History and criticism

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

A public language. On the outskirts of form : cosmopoetics in the shadow of NAFTA -- The dream of a public language : modernity, textuality, and the citizen subject -- Objectivist frames. Life by water : Lorine Niedecker and critical regionalism -- "Closed in glass" : Oppen's class spectacles -- Approaching the new American poetry. Archaeologist of morning : Charles Olson, Edward Dorn and historical method -- "The repeated insistence" : Creeley's rage -- A Cold War correspondence : gender trouble in the letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov -- Looking through lithium : James Schuyler as Jim the Jerk -- Ekphrasis and the New York School -- The pleasures of merely circulating : John Ashbery and the jargon of inauthenticity -- "Struck against parenthesis" : Shelley and postmodern romanticisms -- "Skewed by design" : from act to speech act in language writing -- Vertigo : thinking toward action in the poetry of George Oppen -- Afterword : impossible poetries.

Sommario/riassunto

Essays on modern and contemporary poetry from a cultural studies perspective