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Contested Records : The Turn to Documents in Contemporary North American Poetry /

"Why have so many contemporary poets turned to source material, from newspapers to governmental records, as inspiration for their poetry? How can citational poems offer a means of social engagement? What are the advantages and perils of appropriating text? Synthesizing research in cultural memo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Leong, Michael (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: documental poetics
  • "It matters what you call a thing": documentary, investigative, conceptual, documental
  • Documentation, paranoia, and aspiration: on Amiri Baraka and R.B. Kitaj
  • "Work itself is given a voice": labor, deskilling, and reskilling in Kenneth Goldsmith and Mark Nowak
  • The fate of late conceptualism
  • Meta-publicity and the public sphere: on Claudia Rankine and Kenneth Goldsmith
  • Afterword: whither poetry?