03301nam 2200649 a 450 991077823770332120230721032035.00-8173-8144-9(CKB)1000000000483498(EBL)438203(OCoLC)209148868(SSID)ssj0000223129(PQKBManifestationID)11172958(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223129(PQKBWorkID)10176415(PQKB)10102604(MiAaPQ)EBC438203(MdBmJHUP)muse8690(Au-PeEL)EBL438203(CaPaEBR)ebr10218360(EXLCZ)99100000000048349820060721d2007 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThe point is to change it[electronic resource] poetry and criticism in the continuing present /Jerome McGannTuscaloosa University of Alabama Pressc20071 online resource (266 p.)Modern and contemporary poeticsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8173-5408-5 0-8173-1551-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-234) and index.Philological investigations -- Truth in the body of falsehood -- The alphabet, spelt from Silliman's leaves -- The apparatus of loss : Bruce Andrews writing -- Art and error, with special thanks to the poetry of Robert Duncan -- Private enigmas and critical functions, with special thanks to the poetry of Charles Bernstein -- From Sight to Shenandoah -- Marxism, romanticism, postmodernism : an American case history -- Looney tunes and unheard melodies : an Oulipian colonescapade, with a critique of "The great-ape love song corpus" and its lexicon -- The evidence of things not seen : a play -- Ivanhoe : a playful portrait -- Modernity and complicity : a conversation with Johanna Drucker. A preeminent critic maps the frontier of contemporary poetry. In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present rather than as a legacy of the past. The crisis appears as a poetic deficit in contemporary culture, where values of politics and morality are judged priModern and contemporary poetics.American poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismExperimental poetry, AmericanHistory and criticismModernism (Literature)PoeticsCriticismAmerican poetryHistory and criticism.Experimental poetry, AmericanHistory and criticism.Modernism (Literature)Poetics.Criticism.811/.509112McGann Jerome J156716MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778237703321The point is to change it3796318UNINA