Intuitions in Literature, Technology, and Politics - Parabilities

Using the idea of 'parability,'or the ability for writers to tell improper stories, as a foundation, Alan Ramón Clinton synthesizes a new model for a creative, more daring literary criticism. Sharp and surprising, this wide-ranging project engages with the work of Pynchon, Eco, Forché, Merrill, Weiner, Plath, Ashbery, and Eigner.

List of contents

Intuitions In: Methodologies Space, Spectrality, and Parability Conspiracy of Commodities: Encyclopedic Narrative and Crowdedness From Spectacle to Fascicle: Walter Benjamin, Carolyn Forché, and Messianic History Spectral Conversions: James Merrill and Hannah Weiner Sylvia Plath and Electracy: Spectral Poetics With(out) Specters The Wireless Spaces of Ashbery and Eigner Louis Zukofsky and Quantum Criticism (A/One Conclusion)

About the author

Alan Ramón Clinton is a lecturer in the Department of English at the Santa Clara University.

Summary

Using the idea of 'parability,'or the ability for writers to tell improper stories, as a foundation, Alan Ramón Clinton synthesizes a new model for a creative, more daring literary criticism. Sharp and surprising, this wide-ranging project engages with the work of Pynchon, Eco, Forché, Merrill, Weiner, Plath, Ashbery, and Eigner.

Product details

• Authors: A. Clinton, Alan Ramon Clinton, Alan Ramón Clinton
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.09.2012
• EAN: 9781349435173
• ISBN: 978-1-349-43517-3
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century; American Literature Readings i; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century; American Literature Readings in the 21st Century; American Literature Readings i
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; B, Literary theory, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature—Philosophy, America—Literatures, North American Literature, Narrative;space;Umberto Eco