The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 081730973X ISBN 13: 9780817309732

Casa editrice: Univ of Alabama Pr, 1999

Riassunto

"Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagist poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological worldview, Objectivists have retained their outsider status. Despite such status, however, the formal, intellectual, ideological, and ethical concerns of the Objectivist nexus have increasingly influenced poetry and poetics in the United States.

Thus, argue editors Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quartermain, the time has come for an anthology that unites essential works on Objectivist practices and presents Objectivist writing as an enlargement of the possibilities of poetry rather than as a determinable and definable literary movement. The authors' collective aim is to bring attention to this group of poets and to exemplify and specify cultural readings for poetic texts--readings alert to the material world, politics, society, and history, and readings concerned with the production, dissemination, and reception of poetic texts.

The contributors consider Basil Bunting, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, Charles Reznikoff, and Louis Zukofsky within both their historical milieu and our own. The essays insist on poetry as a mode of thought; analyze and evaluate Objectivist politics; focus on the ethical, spiritual, and religious issues raised by certain Objectivist affiliations with Judaism; and explore the dissemination of poetic texts and the vagaries of Objectivist reception. Running throughout the book are two related threads: Objectivist writing as generally a practice aware of its own historical and social contingency and Objectivist writing as a site of complexity, contestation, interrogation, and disagreement.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Rachel Blau DuPlessis is Professor of English at Temple University.
Peter Quartermain is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Univ of Alabama Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 081730973X
• ISBN 13: 9780817309732
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 380
• Redattore: Duplessis Rachel Blau, Quartermain Peter
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