Experimental - American Literature and the Aesthetics of Knowledge

She shows how the Language poets, a group of primarily white experimental writers, restored to the canon what they saw as modernism's true legacy, whose stakes were simultaneously political and epistemological: it produced a poet who was an intellectual and a text that was experimental.

About the author

Natalia Cecire is a lecturer in English and American studies at the University of Sussex.

Summary

She shows how the Language poets, a group of primarily white experimental writers, restored to the canon what they saw as modernism's true legacy, whose stakes were simultaneously political and epistemological: it produced a poet who was an intellectual and a text that was experimental.

Product details

• Authors: Natalia Cecire, Natalia (Lecturer Cecire, Natalia (Univeristy of Sussex and Lecturer Cecire, Natalia Aki Cecire
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781421433769
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-3376-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Hopkins Studies in Modernism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous