LEADER 01031nam a22002651i 4500 001 991002375219707536 005 20030826153737.0 008 030925s1992 it a||||||||||||||||mul 035 $ab12279997-39ule_inst 035 $aARCHE-032756$9ExL 040 $aBiblioteca Interfacoltà$bita$cA.t.i. Arché s.c.r.l. Pandora Sicilia s.r.l. 041 0 $aita$afre 082 04$a194 245 00$aCartesiana /$ca cura di Giulia Belgioioso 260 $aGalatina :$bCongedo,$c1992 300 $axxiii, 183 p., [16] p. di tav. :$bill. ;$c25 cm 440 0$aTesti e saggi / Università degli studi di Lecce, Facoltà di lettere e filosofia, Istituto di filosofia ;$v12 650 4$aDescartes, René 700 1 $aBelgioioso, Giulia 907 $a.b12279997$b02-04-14$c08-10-03 912 $a991002375219707536 945 $aLE002 Sal. V M 8 bis$g1$i2002000022646$lle002$o-$pE0.00$q-$rn$so $t0$u0$v0$w0$x0$y.i12672488$z08-10-03 996 $aCartesiana$9165063 997 $aUNISALENTO 998 $ale002$b08-10-03$cm$da $e-$fmul$git $h0$i1 LEADER 03617nam 22005053 450 001 9910838212003321 005 20231110220133.0 010 $a0-8173-9444-3 035 $a(CKB)5580000000519973 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30291504 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30291504 035 $a(OCoLC)1373878430 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_102895 035 $a(EXLCZ)995580000000519973 100 $a20230322d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA long essay on the long poem $emodern and contemporary poetics and practices 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aAmherst :$cUniversity of Alabama Press,$d2023. 210 4$d©2023. 215 $a1 online resource (308 pages) 225 1 $aModern and Contemporary Poetics 311 $a0-8173-6068-9 330 $a"In A Long Essay on the Long Poem, DuPlessis invokes a quote from Ronald Johnson: "Americans like to write big poems, even if people don't read them." It's a joke, in part, but also a telling indication of the difficulty of the subject. Long poems are elusive, particularly in the slippery forms that have emerged in the postmodern mode. DuPlessis quotes both Nathaniel Mackey and Anne Waldman in metaphorizing the poem as a Box: both in the sense of a vessel that contains, and as a machine that processes, an instrument on which language is played. To reckon with a particularly noncompliant variant of a notoriously slippery form, DuPlessis works in a polyvalent mode, a hybrid of critical analysis and speculative essay. She resists a single-focus approach to the long poem and does not venture a bravura, one-size-all thesis. Yet there is an arc of argument here, even as the book ranges across five chapters and a host of disparate writers. DuPlessis roughly divides the long poem and the long poets into three genres: epics, quests, and something she terms "assemblages." The poets surveyed will be familiar for most readers of twentieth-century American and English poetry: T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Louis Zukofsky, Charles Olson, Alice Notley, Anne Waldman, Nathaniel Mackey, Ron Silliman, and Robert Duncan. But rather than attempting a definitive treatment of such a long roster, DuPlessis assumes a certain familiarity in order to focus on key works. A standout example comes in the third chapter, in which DuPlessis reads Dante by way of the modern long poem to generate surprising insights. But she also carefully avoids the self-confirming search for genealogical patterns (e.g., Eliot to Pound to Williams to Zukofsky). Instead she deliberately seeks to see different but intersecting patterns of connection between poems, a nexus rather than a lineage. In doing so she works around the metatextual challenge of the long poem and of her own attempt to "essay" it: how to encompass "everything." The end result is a fascinating and generous work that defies neat categorization as anything other than essential"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aModern and Contemporary Poetics 517 $aLong Essay on the Long Poem 606 $aPoetry$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPoetics 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc. 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aPoetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPoetics. 676 $a809.1 700 $aDuPlessis$b Rachel Blau$0605080 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910838212003321 996 $aA long essay on the long poem$94141767 997 $aUNINA