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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838266703321

Autore

Andrews Kimberly Quiogue

Titolo

The academic avant-garde : poetry and the American university / / Kimberly Quiogue Andrews

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9781421444956

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 pages)

Classificazione

LIT006000LIT014000

Disciplina

811.00901

Soggetti

Universities and colleges

Poetics

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)

Universities and colleges - United States

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - United States

Experimental poetry, American - History and criticism - Theory, etc

American poetry - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The 500 Pound Gorilla -- 1 The Dream and the Deed -- 2 Reading Ashbery Reading Ashbery -- 3 Poetry in the Teaching Machine -- 4 Citational Coding -- 5 Archival Authorizations -- Coda: Toward an Aesthetics of Disciplinarity -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

From this dialectical (and sometimes polemical) standpoint, The Academic Avant-Garde reframes major characteristics of contemporary experimental literature, opens up new ways of thinking about the relationship between creative writing and literary study, and expands the horizon of possibility for engaging with and teaching the history of poetry.