LEADER 03335nam 2200661 a 450 001 9910451518703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8173-8144-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000483498 035 $a(EBL)438203 035 $a(OCoLC)209148868 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000223129 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11172958 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223129 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10176415 035 $a(PQKB)10102604 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC438203 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8690 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL438203 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10218360 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000483498 100 $a20060721d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe point is to change it$b[electronic resource] $epoetry and criticism in the continuing present /$fJerome McGann 210 $aTuscaloosa $cUniversity of Alabama Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (266 p.) 225 1 $aModern and contemporary poetics 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8173-5408-5 311 $a0-8173-1551-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [231]-234) and index. 327 $aPhilological 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. 330 $a A preeminent critic maps the frontier of contemporary poetry. In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present rather than as a legacy of the past. The crisis appears as a poetic deficit in contemporary culture, where values of politics and morality are judged pri 410 0$aModern and contemporary poetics. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aExperimental poetry, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aModernism (Literature) 606 $aPoetics 606 $aCriticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aExperimental poetry, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aModernism (Literature) 615 0$aPoetics. 615 0$aCriticism. 676 $a811/.509112 700 $aMcGann$b Jerome J$0156716 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451518703321 996 $aThe point is to change it$92466698 997 $aUNINA