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Poetic license : essays on modernist and postmodernist lyric, Marjorie Perloff

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In Poetic License, Marjorie Perloff insists that despite the recent interest in "opening up the canon," our understanding of poetry and poetics is all too often rutted in conventional notions of the lyric that shed little light on what poets and artists are actually doing today. On topics ranging from general problems of canonicity to the critical evaluation of such poets as Plath, Ginsberg, and others, Perloff introduces nonconventional ideas of the nature of poetic texts and reframes the discussion of postmodern "paratexts." Her discussion reformulates basic presuppositions of what poetry is and what it can do and leads us to see the great possibilities still open to lyric poetry at a time when, as Yeats predicted, "the center cannot hold."--Publisher description
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
xvii, 352 pages
Note
Includes index
Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1. Can(n)on to the right of us, can(n)on to the left of us : a plea for difference
  • 2. Canon and loaded gun : feminist poetics and the avant-garde
  • 3. Traduit de l'américain : French representations of the "new American poetry"
  • 4. The pursuit of number : Yeats, Khlebnikov, and the mathematics of modernism
  • 5. Lawrence's lyric theater : Birds, beasts and flowers
  • 6. The contemporary of our grandchildren : Ezra Pound and the question of influence
  • 7. "A fine new kind of realism" : six Stein styles in search of a reader
  • 8. "Un voix pas la mienne" : French/English Beckett and the French/ English reader
  • 9. The two Ariels : the (re)making of the Sylvia Plath canon
  • 10. A lion in our living room : reading Allen Ginsberg in the Eighties
  • 11. Apocalypse then : W.S. Merwin and the sorrows of literary history
  • 12. On the other side of the field : the collected poems of Paul Blackburn
  • 13. Barthes, Ashbery, and the zero degree of genre
  • 14. "Voice whisht through thither flood" : Steve McCaffery's Panopticon and North of intention
  • 15. "Collision or collusion with history" : Susan Howe's Articulation of sound forms in time
Isbn
9780810108431
Instance
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Poetic license : essays on modernist and postmodernist lyric
Title
Poetic license
Title remainder
essays on modernist and postmodernist lyric
Statement of responsibility
Marjorie Perloff
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Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
In Poetic License, Marjorie Perloff insists that despite the recent interest in "opening up the canon," our understanding of poetry and poetics is all too often rutted in conventional notions of the lyric that shed little light on what poets and artists are actually doing today. On topics ranging from general problems of canonicity to the critical evaluation of such poets as Plath, Ginsberg, and others, Perloff introduces nonconventional ideas of the nature of poetic texts and reframes the discussion of postmodern "paratexts." Her discussion reformulates basic presuppositions of what poetry is and what it can do and leads us to see the great possibilities still open to lyric poetry at a time when, as Yeats predicted, "the center cannot hold."--Publisher description
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Perloff, Marjorie
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PS323.5
LC item number
.P465 1990
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
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  • American poetry
  • English poetry
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Postmodernism (Literature)
  • Poésie américaine
  • Poésie anglaise
  • Postmodernisme (Littérature)
  • Modernisme (Littérature)
  • American poetry
  • English poetry
  • Modernism (Literature)
  • Postmodernism (Literature)
  • Gedichten
  • Engels
  • Amerikaans
  • English-speaking countries
Label
Poetic license : essays on modernist and postmodernist lyric, Marjorie Perloff
Instantiates
Publication
Note
Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-344)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Can(n)on to the right of us, can(n)on to the left of us : a plea for difference -- 2. Canon and loaded gun : feminist poetics and the avant-garde -- 3. Traduit de l'américain : French representations of the "new American poetry" -- 4. The pursuit of number : Yeats, Khlebnikov, and the mathematics of modernism -- 5. Lawrence's lyric theater : Birds, beasts and flowers -- 6. The contemporary of our grandchildren : Ezra Pound and the question of influence -- 7. "A fine new kind of realism" : six Stein styles in search of a reader -- 8. "Un voix pas la mienne" : French/English Beckett and the French/ English reader -- 9. The two Ariels : the (re)making of the Sylvia Plath canon -- 10. A lion in our living room : reading Allen Ginsberg in the Eighties -- 11. Apocalypse then : W.S. Merwin and the sorrows of literary history -- 12. On the other side of the field : the collected poems of Paul Blackburn -- 13. Barthes, Ashbery, and the zero degree of genre -- 14. "Voice whisht through thither flood" : Steve McCaffery's Panopticon and North of intention -- 15. "Collision or collusion with history" : Susan Howe's Articulation of sound forms in time
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xvii, 352 pages
Isbn
9780810108431
Lccn
89071136
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)20826653
  • (OCoLC)ocm20826653
Label
Poetic license : essays on modernist and postmodernist lyric, Marjorie Perloff
Publication
Note
Includes index
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-344)
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Can(n)on to the right of us, can(n)on to the left of us : a plea for difference -- 2. Canon and loaded gun : feminist poetics and the avant-garde -- 3. Traduit de l'américain : French representations of the "new American poetry" -- 4. The pursuit of number : Yeats, Khlebnikov, and the mathematics of modernism -- 5. Lawrence's lyric theater : Birds, beasts and flowers -- 6. The contemporary of our grandchildren : Ezra Pound and the question of influence -- 7. "A fine new kind of realism" : six Stein styles in search of a reader -- 8. "Un voix pas la mienne" : French/English Beckett and the French/ English reader -- 9. The two Ariels : the (re)making of the Sylvia Plath canon -- 10. A lion in our living room : reading Allen Ginsberg in the Eighties -- 11. Apocalypse then : W.S. Merwin and the sorrows of literary history -- 12. On the other side of the field : the collected poems of Paul Blackburn -- 13. Barthes, Ashbery, and the zero degree of genre -- 14. "Voice whisht through thither flood" : Steve McCaffery's Panopticon and North of intention -- 15. "Collision or collusion with history" : Susan Howe's Articulation of sound forms in time
Dimensions
23 cm
Extent
xvii, 352 pages
Isbn
9780810108431
Lccn
89071136
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
  • (OCoLC)20826653
  • (OCoLC)ocm20826653

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