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Unending design : the forms of postmodern poetry /
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 alternativ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
1991.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Unending Design; Contents; Acknowledgments; l. Introduction; Defining a Postmodern Poetics; Seriality and Proceduralism: A Typology of Postmodern Poetry; SERIAL FORM; 2. The Infinite Serial Form; The Unbound and the Uneven: Robert Duncan's Passages; Against the Calendar: Paul Blackburn's Journals; One Thing Finding Its Place with Another: Robert Creeley's Pieces; 3. The Finite Serial Form; The Dark House: Jack Spicer's Book of Language; The Subway's Iron Circuit: George Oppen's Discrete Series; Sounding and Resounding Anew: Louis Zukofsky and Lorine Niedecker; PROCEDURAL FORM
- 4. A Predetermined FormRenovated Form: The Sestinas of John Ashbery and Louis Zukofsky; Canonic Form in Weldon Kees, Robert Creeley, and Louis Zukofsky; 5. A Generative Device; Constant and Variant: Semantic Recurrence in Harry Mathews, William Bronk, and Robert Creeley; Arbitrary Constraints and Aleatory Operations: Harry Mathews and John Cage; 6. A Polemical Conclusion: The Language Poetries and the New Formalism; Notes; Index