The Point Is to Change It - Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present

Informationen zum Autor Jerome McGann is the author or editor of over 30 books of scholarship and criticism, among them Algernon Charles Swinburne: Major Poems and Selected Prose, Byron and Romanticism, Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost, and Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism. Klappentext In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. Zusammenfassung Argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. This book focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present.

Product details

• Authors: Jerome Mcgann, Jerome J. McGann
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.04.2007
• EAN: 9780817354084
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-5408-4
• No. of pages: 242
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic; Modern & Contemporary Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetic
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies