Discrepant Engagement - Dissonance, Cross-Culturality, and Experimental Writing

This highly regarded and frequently referenced work of literary criticism is essential to any study of avant garde poetics.

About the author

Nathaniel Mackey is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Summary

This work addresses the poetry and prose of black writers from the US and Carribean and the so-called Black Mountain poets. It focuses on the experimental aspects of their work to show that they share an implied critique of conventional poetic practices.

Product details

• Authors: Nathaniel Mackey
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.2000
• EAN: 9780817310325
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1032-5
• No. of pages: 313
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies