Poetry as re-reading : American avant-garde poetry and the poetics of counter-method /
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Avant-garde and modernism studies.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- "The medium is the 'method'": toward a postmodern poetics of counter-method
- A "no man's land": postmodern citationality in Zukofsky's "poem beginning 'The'"
- A "seeing" through refraction: the rear-view mirror image in George Oppen's Collected poems
- Be aware of "the medusa's glance": the objectivist lens and Carl Rakosi's poetics of strabismal seeing in "Adventures of the head"
- The politics of critical parody: chance operation and the mesostic method in John Cage
- Articulating the inarticulate: singularities and the counter-method in Susan Howe
- Reflection upon "my [unreflected] life": M. Merleau-Ponty and Lyn Hejinian's poetics of "genetic phenomenology"
- "Nonsense bargains": inversely proportional writing and the poetics of "expenditure without reserve" in Bruce Andrews's work
- "Slowed reason" as "idling language": postmodern counter-speed and the poetics of sediment in Charles Bernstein
- Coda: the postmodern poetics of counter-method: toward a poetry yet to come.