Author: Laura (Riding) Jackson Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 9780472069576 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 284
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Brings together four decades of largely unpublished work by Jackson, exploring the rationale for her renunciation of poetry in 1941 after two decades as a poet
Author: Jeremy Noel-Tod Publisher: ISBN: 0199640254 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 727
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This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.
Author: C. Billitteri Publisher: Springer ISBN: 023062040X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 219
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This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most intellectually ambitious of American writers: Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson.
Author: Tom Fisher Publisher: University of Iowa Press ISBN: 1609384806 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 190
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Writing Not Writing is both a detailed analysis of four individual poets who left poetry behind and a theoretically provocative exploration of the political and ethical possibilities of silence, not-doing, and disavowal. Reading the silences of George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, and Bob Kaufman, the renunciation of Laura Riding, and other more contemporary instances and modes of poetic abnegation, Tom Fisher explores silence, refusal, and disavowal as political and ethical modes of response in a time of continuous crisis. Through a turn away from writing, these poets offer strategies of refusal and departure that leave anagrammatical hollows behind, activating the negational capacities of writing and aesthetics to disrupt the empire of sense, speech, and agency.
Author: Laura (Riding) Jackson Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 9780813916828 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 638
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Existing only in manuscript since the 1940s but enjoying an underground reputation among friends and advocates, this primary document by one of the most original and influential of American poets and thinkers is now being published as Rational Meaning, Laura (Riding) Jackson's testament of the necessity of living for truth. Begun as a dictionary and thesaurus in the 1930s, the work developed into a fundamental reevaluation of language itself. Riding, in close collaboration with her husband, continued this monumental project over the succeeding decades, completing it after his death in 1968. At the core of Rational Meaning, which aims to restore the truth of language by arguing that meaning inheres in words, stands the idea that a total renovation of the knowledge of language is needed, not to develop mere verbal sophistication and respectability but fundamentally to reinvigorate the intellectual processes of consciousness. The book reveals the disastrous extent to which language has been "unlearned" and shows how it may be learned again. Rational Meaning will be essential reading, not only for students of literature but for radical-minded linguists and lexicographers unhappy with the orthodoxies current in their disciplines.
Author: Katia Pizzi Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3031355466 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 212
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This collection of essays reappraises the contributions made by modernist movements from regions generally regarded as peripheral or semi-peripheral to a global aesthetic of Modernism. It particularly focuses on European semi-peripheries, combining theoretical chapters and individual case studies to examine the cultural and aesthetic complexities of so-called peripheral modernisms. Contributing to research on the ‘transnational turn’ in New Modernist Studies, the volume takes recent scholarship on postcolonial modernisms one step further by exploring a broader geopolitical expanse than the (formerly) colonised regions under global capitalism. It highlights the local and translocal specificities of modernist movements from regions such as Eastern and Central Europe and the Mediterranean to offer new insights into the concept of global modernism.
Author: Michael Palmer Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 9780811214797 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 120
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The Promises of Glass, Michael Palmer's first new collection since At Passages (New Directions, 1995), contains seven sections: "The White Notebook", "The Promises of Glass", "Q", "Four Kitaj Studies", "Five Easy Poems" "In an X", and "Tower". These gorgeous new poems explore language and the "salt sea of autobiographies". His work also examines what Marjorie Perloff has described as "the absurdist 'displacement by degrees' one experiences in the post-urban world of late twentieth-century America."
Author: Avital Ronell Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252030664 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 403
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Front cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- xiii Acknowledgments -- xv Introduction -- Photo album follows page xxxvi -- PART I The Call of Technology -- 5 1. Delay Call Forwarding -- 38 2. Support Our Tropes: Reading Desert Storm -- 63 3. Trauma TV: Twelve Steps Beyond the Pleasure Principle -- 89 4. State of the Art: Julia Scher's Disinscription of National Security -- PART II Freedom and Obligation: Minority Report on Children, Addicts, Outlaws, and Ghosts -- 101 5. On the Unrelenting Creepiness of Childhood: Lyotard, Kid-Tested -- 128 6. Toward a Narcoanalysis -- 141 7. Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas -- 145 8. Preface to Dictations -- PART III Psyche-Soma: The Finite Body -- 161 9. A Note on the Failure of Man's Custodianship -- 168 10. The Disappearance and Returns of the Idiot -- 188 11. the Philosophical Code Dennis Cooper's Pacific Rim -- PART IV Danke! et Adieu: On Hookups and Breakups -- 205 12. The Sacred Alien: Heidegger's Reading of Holderlin's "Andenken -- 227 13. On Friendship -- Or, Kathy Goes to Hell -- 240 14. Loving Your Enemy -- PART V The Fading Empire of Cognition -- 259 15. Slow Learner -- 293 16. The Experimental Disposition: Nietzsche's Discovery of America (Or, Why the Present Administration Sees Everything in Terms of a Test) -- 307 17. Koan Practice of Taking Down the Test -- 324 18. "Is It Happening? -- Index -- back cover
Author: Marijeta Bozovic Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 067429498X Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 321
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The remarkable story of seven contemporary Russian-language poets whose experimental work anchors a thriving dissident artistic movement opposed to both Putin’s regime and Western liberalism. What does leftist art look like in the wake of state socialism? In recent years, Russian-language avant-garde poetry has been seeking the answers to this question. Marijeta Bozovic follows a constellation of poets at the center of a contemporary literary movement that is bringing radical art out of the Soviet shadow: Kirill Medvedev, Pavel Arseniev, Aleksandr Skidan, Dmitry Golynko, Roman Osminkin, Keti Chukhrov, and Galina Rymbu. While their formal experiments range widely, all share a commitment to explicitly political poetry. Each one, in turn, has become a hub in a growing new-left network across the former Second World. Joined together by their work with the Saint Petersburg–based journal [Translit], this circle has staunchly resisted the Putin regime and its mobilization of Soviet nostalgia. At the same time, the poets of Avant-Garde Post– reject Western discourse about the false promises of leftist utopianism and the superiority of the liberal world. In opposing both narratives, they draw on the legacies of historical Russian and Soviet avant-gardes as well as on an international canon of Marxist art and theory. They are also intimately connected with other artists, intellectuals, and activists around the world, collectively restoring leftist political poetry to global prominence. The avant-garde, Bozovic shows, is not a relic of the Soviet past. It is a recurrent pulse in Russophone—as well as global—literature and art. Charged by that pulse, today’s new left is reimagining class-based critique. Theirs is an ongoing, defiant effort to imagine a socialist future that is at once global and egalitarian.
Author: Moira Fradinger Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192651595 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 480
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Antígonas: Writing from Latin America is the first book in the English language to approach classical reception through the study of one classical fragment as it circulates throughout Latin America. This interdisciplinary research engages comparative literature, Latin American studies, classical reception, history, feminist theory, political philosophy, and theatre history. Moira Fradinger tracks the ways in which, since the early nineteenth century, fragments of Antigone's myth and tragedy have been persistently cannibalized and ruminated throughout South and Central America and the Caribbean, quilted to local dramatic forms, revealing an archive of political thought about Latin America's heterogeneous neo-colonial histories. Antígona is consistently characterized as a national mother and, as the twentieth century advances, multiplied on stage, forming female collectives, foregrounding the urgency of systemic change or staging gender politics. Through meticulous examination of classical culture in necolonial contexts, Fradinger explores ways of reading Creole texts from the geopolitical South that disrupt the colonial reading protocols that deracinate texts or lock them into locality. By historicizing Antígona plays and interpreting them with a purpose to address specific colonial legacies, the book reveals how Antígona has ceased being Greek and instead tells stories of twentieth- and twenty-first-century Latin America. Antígonas rethinks the paradigms through which we understand the presence of ancient cultural materials in former colonial territories, while illuminating an understudied continent in Anglophone reception studies.
Author: Laura (Riding) Jackson
Author: Jeremy Noel-Tod
Author: C. Billitteri
Author: Tom Fisher
Author: Laura (Riding) Jackson
Author: Katia Pizzi
Author: Michael Palmer
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Author: Marijeta Bozovic
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