Procedural Form In Postmodern American Poetry

Author : D. Huntsperger
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230106102
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Procedural Form in Postmodern American Poetry written by D. Huntsperger and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-03-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the political significance of formal experimentation in American poetry written during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. It focuses on the use of procedural forms, which involve the invention of rules or methods designed to structure the production of a poem's content.

Author : David W. Huntsperger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A New Way of Working written by David W. Huntsperger and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joseph M. Conte
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501703226
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Unending Design written by Joseph M. Conte and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-15 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on the work of contemporary American poets from Ashbery to Zukofsky, Joseph M. Conte elaborates an innovative typology of postmodern poetic forms. In Conte's view, looking at recent poetry in terms of the complementary methods of seriality and proceduralism offers a rewarding alternative to the familiar analytic dichotomy of "open" and "closed" forms.

Author : A. Mossin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230106803
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Male Subjectivity and Poetic Form in "New American" Poetry written by A. Mossin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing in particular on pairings of writers within the larger grouping of poets, this book suggests how literary partnerships became pivotal to American poets in the wake of Donald Allen's 'New American Poetry' anthology.

Author : Robert Sheppard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331934045X
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Form in Contemporary Innovative Poetry written by Robert Sheppard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study engages the life of form in contemporary innovative poetries through both an introduction to the latest theories and close readings of leading North American and British innovative poets. The critical approach derives from Robert Sheppard’s axiomatic contention that poetry is the investigation of complex contemporary realities through the means (meanings) of form. Analyzing the poetry of Rosmarie Waldrop, Caroline Bergval, Sean Bonney, Barry MacSweeney, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Kenneth Goldsmith, Allen Fisher, and Geraldine Monk, Sheppard argues that their forms are a matter of authorial design and readerly engagement.

Author : A. Mikkelsen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230117155
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pastoral, Pragmatism, and Twentieth-Century American Poetry written by A. Mikkelsen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first expansive study of American pastoral since Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden , Mikkelsen reinvigorates discussion of this literary mode as a form of cultural commentary whose subjects extend beyond the simple or rustic life to encompass the major social, economic, and political transformations of the past century.

Author : John R. Woznicki
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611461251
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New American Poetry written by John R. Woznicki and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New American Poetry: Fifty Years Later is a collection of critical essays on Donald Allen’s 1960 seminal anthology, The New American Poetry, an anthology that Marjorie Perloff once called “the fountainhead of radical American poetics.” The New American Poetry is referred to in every literary history of post-World War II American poetry. Allen’s anthology has reached its fiftieth anniversary, providing a unique time for reflection and reevaluation of this preeminent collection. As we know, Allen’s anthology was groundbreaking—it was the first to distribute widely the poetry and theoretical positions of poets such as Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg and the Beats, and it was the first to categorize these poets by the schools (Black Mountain, New York School, San Francisco Renaissance, and the Beats) by which they are known today. Over the course of fifty years, this categorization of poets into schools has become one of the major, if not only way, that The New American Poetry is remembered or valued; one certain goal of this volume, as one reviewer invites, is to “pry The New American Poetry out from the hoary platitudes that have encrusted it.” To this point critics mostly have examined The New American Poetry as an anthology; former treatments of The New American Poetry look at it intently as a whole. Though the almost singularly-focused study of its construction and, less often, reception has lent a great deal of documented, highly visible and debated material in which to consider, we have been left with certain notions about its relevance that have become imbued ultimately in the collective critical consciousness of postmodernity. This volume, however, goes beyond the analysis of construction and reception and achieves something distinctive, extendingthose former treatments by treading on the paths they create. This volume aims to discover another sense of “radical” that Perloff articulated—rather than a radical that departs markedly from the usual, we invite consideration of The New American Poetry that isradical in the sense of root, of harboring something fundamental, something inherent, as we uncover and trace further elements correlated with its widespread influence over the last fifty years.

Author : Elina Siltanen
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027266395
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Experimentalism as Reciprocal Communication in Contemporary American Poetry written by Elina Siltanen and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poems of John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian and Ron Silliman may seem to offer endless small details of expression, observation, thought and narrative which fail to hang together even from one line to the next. But as Elina Siltanen shows here, this extraordinary flow of uncoordinated detail can stimulate readers to join the poets in a delightful exploration of ordinary language. When readers take a poem in this spirit, they actually begin to read as members of a community: the community not only of themselves and other readers, but also including the poet and other poets, plus all the speakers of the language in which the poem is written. For all these different parties, that language is indeed a shared resource, and the way for readers to get started is simply by recalling or imagining some of the numerous kinds of context in which the given poem’s words-phrases-sentences could, or could not, be successfully used. The rewards for such proactive readers are on the one hand a heightened sense of the subtle interweavings of language and life, and on the other hand a freshly empowered self-confidence. The point being that, within the community of contemporary experimental poetry, poets have no more authority than readers. Rejecting older cultural hierarchies, they present themselves as teasing out the idiomatic serendipities of their own poems together with their readers.

Author : Jo Gill
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137340231
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of the American Suburbs written by Jo Gill and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first scholarly study of the rich body of poetry that emerged from the post-war American suburbs, Gill evaluates the work of forty poets, including Anne Sexton, Langston Hughes, and John Updike. Combining textual analysis and archival research, this book offers a new perspective on the field of twentieth-century American literature.

Author : James Kurt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Question of Determinacy written by James Kurt and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation challenges the scholarly tendency to explain procedural (i.e., constraint or chance-driven) poetry as the poetic instantiation of the goals of the postmodern critique of subjectivity. I argue, instead, that while procedural forms of poetry do typically operate in a markedly postmodern fashion, the "canon" of this genre has long included poetic forms that directly contradict this postmodern reading. The study of these forms is important insofar as they resist the ethically questionable solipsism--one that refuses to recognize the possibility of meaning other to and outside of human social or poetic construction--in which the postmodern critique of subjectivity and postmodern poetics often find themselves. In examining the work of Jacques Derrida, I outline this postmodern solipsism in a theoretical, philosophical register, and I suggest that the late work of philosopher Martin Heidegger, specifically his concept of the "open," resists such thinking. In challenging the strict identity between proceduralism and postmodern thought, I draw attention to procedure-based texts that search for meaning beyond poetic construction, for example Raymond Queneau's radical combinatoric poetry, Christian Bök's collection Eunoia, and Gregory Betts' If Language. Such procedural practices, I argue, offer a poetics that, against postmodern solipsism, recognizes the otherness of the world, language, or texts as contexts of meaning in which poets participate, but do not master.