From Modernism to Postmodernism - American Poetry and Theory in the Twentieth Century

Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Ashton is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago Klappentext Jennifer Ashton develops important ways to read modernist and postmodernist poets through their similarities as well as their differences. Zusammenfassung In this overview of twentieth-century American poetry! Jennifer Ashton explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest linking contemporary poets with their modernist forebears! including Stein! Williams and Pound. She develops important ways to read modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well as their differences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction: modernism's new literalism; 1. Gertrude Stein for anyone; 2. Making the rose red: Stein, proper names and the critique of indeterminacy; 3. Laura (Riding) Jackson and the New Criticism; 4. Modernism's old literalism: Pound, Williams, Zukofsky and the objectivist critique of metaphor; 5. Authorial inattention: Donald Davidson's literalism, Jorie Graham's Materialism and cognitive science's embodied minds; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Ashton, Jennifer (University of Illinois Ashton
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521101554
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10155-4
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies