Writing in Real Time - Emergent Poetics From Whitman to the Digital

Informationen zum Autor Paul Jaussen is an Assistant Professor of Literature at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan. His research covers nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, with a particular focus on poetics and literary theory. His essays and reviews have appeared in New Literary History, Contemporary Literature, the Journal of Modern Literature, William Carlos Williams Review, Jacket2, and The Volta. Klappentext Writing in Real Time is the first book-length study of the American long poem as a complex adaptive system. Zusammenfassung Synthesizing systems theory! literary history! and recent debates in poetics! this book offers a theory and history of the American long poem as an emergent system. This approach shows that the long poem is a dynamic! intricate! and culturally-entangled literary practice! with continued relevance for our digital age. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the poetry of emergence; 2. Emergent America: Walt Whitman's enactive democracy; 3. Emergent vocabulary: Ezra Pound's translation machine; 4. Emergent history: Charles Olson's housekeeping; 5. Emergent midrash: Rachel Blau DuPlessis glosses modernism; 6. Emergent sounds: Nathanial Mackey's 'post-expectant futurity'; 7. Conclusion: emergent poetics and the digital.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Jaussen, Paul (Lawrence Technological University Jaussen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107195318
• ISBN: 978-1-107-19531-8
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American; Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture; Cambridge Studies in American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies