The Darkness of the Present - Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly

Informationen zum Autor Steve McCaffery is the author of Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics and North of Intention: Critical Writings 1973-1986 , and the coeditor of Imagining Language: An Anthology . Klappentext In the eleven essays of The Darkness of the Present, poet and critic Steve McCaffery 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. McCaffery's writings work against the urge to classify works by placing them in standard literary periods or disciplinary partitions. Instead, McCaffery offers a variety of insights into unusual and ingenious affiliations between poetic works that may have previously seemed distinctive. Zusammenfassung The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectivelyinvestigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the "contemporary" in the field of poetics.

Product details

• Authors: Steve McCaffery
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2012
• EAN: 9780817357337
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5733-7
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Modern and Contemporary Poetic; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies