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Experimentalism as reciprocal communication in contemporary American poetry : John Ashbery, Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman /
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 stimula...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2016]
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| Colección: | FILLM studies in languages and literatures ;
v. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Experimentalism as Reciprocal Communication in Contemporary American Poetry; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Series editor's preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter€1. Introduction; 1.1 The poets, their contexts, and readers; 1.2 Reading conspicuously; 1.3 Prospectus; Chapter€2. "What makes you think this is a voice?": Reading presence and the self; 2.1 From the New York School to Language Writing: Against the single voice; 2.1.1 Modes of presence: The New York School and confessional poetry; 2.1.2 Constructing the self: Language Writing and the workshop lyric.
- 2.1.3 "Authenticity" / "sincerity" and Ashbery, Silliman and Hejinian's Postmodernism2.2 Possibilities for multiple presences: Redefining defining the self; 2.2.1 Pronominal indeterminacies in Ashbery; 2.2.2 "Attention is all"? Silliman's disrupted presences of the self; 2.2.3 "The self as a relationship": Hejinian writing (her)self; 2.3 "There is no 'I' as such": Escaping the self; Chapter€3. "Do you see how it posits you the reader?": Reading in a community; 3.1 Collaborative writing and collective reading; 3.1.1 The New York School: Towards a collective voice.
- 3.1.2 Language Writing collaborations: Collectivity and strangeness3.2 Hard work: Becoming a reader; 3.2.1 Making reading communities; 3.2.2 "Joining" a reading community; 3.2.3 Poetic address: Collaborating with readers; 3.3 Reading to escape the self; Chapter€4, "What of a poem that told you what it did?": Consciousness of poetry; 4.1 Unidentifiable writing: Poetry and criticism; 4.2 Poetic inquiries: Critical readings in and of poetry; 4.2.1 "new€/ Criticism": Dialogic art-critical discussion in Ashbery's "Litany."
- 4.2.2 "Normal chores of verse": Theory-consciousness and constructedness in Silliman's "Ketjak" and "Ketjak2"4.2.3 "A language of inquiry": Hejinian and the discourse of poetry; 4.3 The experimental poem as an intersection; Chapter€5. "Pending panic of sense": Reading everyday communication in experimental poetry; 5.1 "Gazing at the stars": Particularity and commonality; 5.1.1 " Coming from the same place": Commonality and context in writing about the everyday; 5.1.2 "This is not repetition": Iteration and commonality; 5.2 A sense of the idiomatic.
- 5.2.1 "Transparent and needle-pure": Ashbery's everyday clichés5.2.2 " You spill the sugar when you lift the spoon": Everyday life turned idiom in Hejinian's writing; 5.2.3 "Cannot shut€/ revolving door": Silliman's idiomatic insistence; 5.3 Happily: Chance and the unexpected in the everyday; Chapter€6. Afterword: Reading writing as a shared encounter; References; Primary sources; Secondary sources; Index.