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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965758303321

Autore

Bloomfield Mandy <1971->

Titolo

Archaeopoetics : Word, Image, History / / Mandy Bloomfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : The University of Alabama Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8173-8965-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Modern and contemporary poetics

Disciplina

809.1/04

Soggetti

Poetics

Visual perception in literature

Imagery (Psychology) in literature

Poetry, Modern - History and criticism

Electronic books.

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

Archaeopoetics -- "Radical visible subsurface": Susan Howe's frictional histories of the underword -- "The word. the image": Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's fractured forms -- "Haemorrhage of uns -": Maggie O'Sullivan's corporeal salvagings -- Isles full of noises: Kamau Brathwaite's archipelagic poetics -- Alluvial siftings: M. Nourbese Philip's marine archaeopoetics -- Afterword: archaeopoetic afterlives.

Sommario/riassunto

Explores poetry as historical investigation, examining works by five contemporary poets whose creations represent new, materially emphatic methods of engaging with the past and producing new kinds of historical knowledge Archaeopoetics explores "archaeological poetry," ground-breaking and experimental writing by innovative poets whose work opens.