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On the outskirts of form : practicing cultural poetics /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Davidson, Michael, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Poetics.
Poetry > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism.
Table of Contents:
  • A public language. On the outskirts of form : cosmopoetics in the shadow of NAFTA
  • The dream of a public language : modernity, textuality, and the citizen subject
  • Objectivist frames. Life by water : Lorine Niedecker and critical regionalism
  • "Closed in glass" : Oppen's class spectacles
  • Approaching the new American poetry. Archaeologist of morning : Charles Olson, Edward Dorn and historical method
  • "The repeated insistence" : Creeley's rage
  • A Cold War correspondence : gender trouble in the letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov
  • Looking through lithium : James Schuyler as Jim the Jerk
  • Ekphrasis and the New York School
  • The pleasures of merely circulating : John Ashbery and the jargon of inauthenticity
  • "Struck against parenthesis" : Shelley and postmodern romanticisms
  • "Skewed by design" : from act to speech act in language writing
  • Vertigo : thinking toward action in the poetry of George Oppen
  • Afterword : impossible poetries.