The Darkness of the Present : Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly /

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This book includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the "contemporary" in the field of poetics. In this book, a poet and critic argues that by approaching the past and the present as unified entities,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McCaffery, Steve
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Poetics.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Poetique.
Literature > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This book includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the "contemporary" in the field of poetics. In this book, a poet and critic argues that by approaching the past and the present as unified entities, the contemporary is made historical at the same time as the historical is made contemporary.
Physical Description:1 online resource (296 pages).
ISBN:9780817386429

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