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Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Ashton is Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago Klappentext In this ambitious overview of twentieth-century American poetry! Jennifer Ashton examines the relationship between modernist and postmodernist American poetics. She explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest that connect contemporary poets with their modernist forebears. This major new account of the key themes in twentieth-century poetry and poetics develops important new ways to read both modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well as their differences. It will be of interest to all working in American literature! to modernists! and to scholars of twentieth-century poetry. 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.
