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Being numerous : poetry and the ground of social life / / Oren Izenberg



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Autore: Izenberg Oren Visualizza persona
Titolo: Being numerous : poetry and the ground of social life / / Oren Izenberg Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, : Princeton University Press, 2010
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
Disciplina: 809.1/04
Soggetto topico: Poetry, Modern - 20th century - History and criticism - Theory, etc
Soggetto non controllato: A. R. Ammons
Anglo-American poetry
Bob Perelman
Discrete Series
Frank O'Hara
George Oppen
Language poetry
Leningrad
Robinson Crusoe
The Materials
William Butler Yeats
aesthetics
collective intention
collectivity
completeness
conversation
counterfactual identity
cultural determinism
ethics
eugenics
freedom
grammaticality
inattention
interpretation
judgment
literary life
love
minimalism
particularity
perfection
person
personhood
poem
poet
poetic agency
poetic community
poetic difficulty
poetic knowledge
poetic mastery
poetic politics
poetry
preference
reading
silence
slightness
social life
social recognition
symbolism
translation
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Introduction: poems, poetry, personhood -- White thin bone: Yeatsian personhood -- Oppen's silence, Crusoe's silence, and the silence of other minds -- The justice of my feelings for Frank O'Hara -- Language poetry and collective life -- We are reading.
Sommario/riassunto: "Because I am not silent," George Oppen wrote, "the poems are bad." What does it mean for the goodness of an art to depend upon its disappearance? In Being Numerous, Oren Izenberg offers a new way to understand the divisions that organize twentieth-century poetry. He argues that the most important conflict is not between styles or aesthetic politics, but between poets who seek to preserve or produce the incommensurable particularity of experience by making powerful objects, and poets whose radical commitment to abstract personhood seems altogether incompatible with experience--and with poems. Reading across the apparent gulf that separates traditional and avant-garde poets, Izenberg reveals the common philosophical urgency that lies behind diverse forms of poetic difficulty--from Yeats's esoteric symbolism and Oppen's minimalism and silence to O'Hara's joyful slightness and the Language poets' rejection of traditional aesthetic satisfactions. For these poets, what begins as a practical question about the conduct of literary life--what distinguishes a poet or group of poets?--ends up as an ontological inquiry about social life: What is a person and how is a community possible? In the face of the violence and dislocation of the twentieth century, these poets resist their will to mastery, shy away from the sensual richness of their strongest work, and undermine the particularity of their imaginative and moral visions--all in an effort to allow personhood itself to emerge as an undeniable fact making an unrefusable claim.
Titolo autorizzato: Being numerous  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-96452-6
9786612964527
1-4008-3652-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824932203321
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