Procedural Form in Postmodern American Poetry - Berrigan, Antin, Silliman, and Hejinian

Informationen zum Autor DAVID W. HUNTSPERGER, Assistant Professor of English at the University of Washington, USA. Klappentext This book explores the political significance of formal experimentation in American poetry written during the 1960s, 70s and 80s. It focuses on the use of procedural forms, which involve the invention of rules or methods designed to structure the production of a poem's content. Zusammenfassung This book explores the political significance of formal experimentation in American poetry written during the 1960s! 70s and 80s. It focuses on the use of procedural forms! which involve the invention of rules or methods designed to structure the production of a poem's content. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A Social Reading of Postmodern Poetic Form Procedural Form: An Overview Making Poems: The 'method' of Ted Berrigan's Sonnets The Tactics of the Text: Experimental Form in David Antin's 'Novel Poem' 'A new content': Procedural Form and Concrete Reality in Ron Silliman's Tjanting Objectivist Form and Feminist Materialism in Lyn Hejinian's My Life Afterword

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: D. Huntsperger, David W. Huntsperger
• Editore: Palgrave UK
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 14.04.2010
• EAN: 9780230622029
• ISBN: 978-0-230-62202-9
• Pagine: 204
• Serie: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics; Modern and Contemporary Poetry; Modern and Contemporary Poetry; Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata