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Poetic obligation : ethics in experimental American poetry after 1945 /

Since at least the time of Plato's Republic, the relationship between poetry and ethics has been troubled. Through the prism of what has been called the "new" ethical criticism, inspired by the work of Emmanuel Levinas, G. Matthew Jenkins considers the works of Objectivists, Black Mou...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jenkins, Grant Matthew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: The double-double turn
  • pt. 1. Objectivist poethics
  • Saying obligations: George Oppen's Of being numerous
  • A phenomenology of judgment: Charles Reznikoff's Holocaust
  • pt. 2. Excess and eros. The ethics of excess: Edward Dorn's Gunslinger
  • The body ethical: Robert Duncan's Passages
  • pt. 3. An ethics of sexual alterity. The nearnes sof poetry: Susan Howe's The nonconformist's memorial
  • Permeable ethics: Lyn Hejinian's The cell
  • Conclusion: What difference does poetic obligation make?