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The point is to change it : poetry and criticism in the continuing present /

Argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. This book focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: McGann, Jerome J.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2007.
Collection:Modern and contemporary poetics.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Philological investigations
  • Truth in the body of falsehood
  • The alphabet, spelt from Silliman's leaves
  • The apparatus of loss : Bruce Andrews writing
  • Art and error, with special thanks to the poetry of Robert Duncan
  • Private enigmas and critical functions, with special thanks to the poetry of Charles Bernstein
  • From Sight to Shenandoah
  • Marxism, romanticism, postmodernism : an American case history
  • Looney tunes and unheard melodies : an Oulipian colonescapade, with a critique of "The great-ape love song corpus" and its lexicon
  • The evidence of things not seen : a play
  • Ivanhoe : a playful portrait
  • Modernity and complicity : a conversation with Johanna Drucker.