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Autore: | Epstein Andrew <1969-> |
Titolo: | Attention equals life : the pursuit of the everyday in contemporary poetry and culture / / Andrew Epstein |
Pubblicazione: | New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (385 p.) |
Disciplina: | 811/.5409355 |
Soggetto topico: | American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism |
American poetry - 21st century - History and criticism | |
Civilization in literature | |
Banality (Philosophy) in literature | |
Realism in literature | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: the poetics of everyday life since 1945 -- The crisis of attention, everyday life theory, and contemporary poetry -- "Each day so different, yet still alike": James Schuyler and the elusive everyday -- "Tthe tiny invites attention": A. R. Ammons's quotidian muse -- Writing the maternal everyday: Bernadette Mayer and her "daughters" (Hoa Nguyen, Susan Holbrook, Laynie Browne) -- "There is no content here, only dailiness": poetry as critique of everyday life in Ron Silliman's Ketjak -- Everyday life projects in contemporary poetry and culture (Kenneth Goldsmith, Claudia Rankine, Brenda Coultas, Harryette Mullen) -- Conclusion: Claudia Rankine's citizen and beyond. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a part. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Attention equals life |
ISBN: | 0-19-063172-4 |
0-19-060896-X | |
0-19-997215-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910808717203321 |
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