Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry - Brossura

Ryan Ruby

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1911710141 ISBN 13: 9781911710141

Casa editrice: Seven Stories Press Uk, 2024

Riassunto

Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet - from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafes of Grub Street and the Latin Quarter, from the creative writing departments of the American Midwest to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley. Cheekily introducing academic discourse, media studies, cybersemiotics, literary sociology, and heterodox economics into his blank verse study of poetry, Ruby traces the always delicate dance between poets, their publishers, and their audiences, and shows how, time and time again, the social, technological, and aesthetic experiments that appear in poetic language have prefigured radical changes to the ways of life of millions of people. It is precisely to poets to whom we ought to turn to catch a glimpse, as Shelley once put it, of the 'gigantic shadows futurity casts on the present.''Ruby is a public intellectual with an accessible style and an appealing candor who promises to bring poetry and philosophy together again on the stage of literary criticism.' - The judges of the Robert B. Silvers Prize.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Seven Stories Press Uk
• Data di pubblicazione: 2024
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1911710141
• ISBN 13: 9781911710141
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 96
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile