Contemporary Poetry And Postmodernism

Author : I. Gregson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230379145

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Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism by I. Gregson Pdf

Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism explores the fraught relationship between the poetry of the mainstream and kinds of modernist poetry that have had to make their way outside it. Mainstream poets like Paul Muldoon, James Fenton and Carol Ann Duffy multiply voices and so draw on resources from the novel - Bakhtin's concept of the dialogic is therefore used to explain their techniques. By contrast, Shklovsky's concept of 'estrangement' is shown to be more useful in accounting for the radical experimentation of poets like Edwin Morgan, Christopher Middleton and Denise Riley. However, the book concludes by suggesting that - partly because of the influence of surrealism in women poets like Selima Hill and Jo Shapcott - the mainstream has recently been infiltrated by modernist and postmodernist estrangement effects.

Author : Ian Gregson
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312159927

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Contemporary Poetry and Postmodernism by Ian Gregson Pdf

Author : Jennifer Ashton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139448598

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From Modernism to Postmodernism by Jennifer Ashton Pdf

In this overview of twentieth-century American poetry, Jennifer Ashton examines the relationship between modernist and postmodernist American poetics. Ashton moves between the iconic figures of American modernism - Stein, Williams, Pound - and developments in contemporary American poetry to show how contemporary poetics, specially the school known as language poetry, have attempted to redefine the modernist legacy. She explores the complex currents of poetic and intellectual interest that connect contemporary poets with their modernist forebears. The works of poets such as Gertrude Stein and John Ashbery are explained and analysed in detail. This major account of the key themes in twentieth-century poetry and poetics develops important ways to read both modernist and postmodernist poetry through their similarities as well as their differences. It will be of interest to all working in American literature, to modernists, and to scholars of twentieth-century poetry.

Author : Kevin Walzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015046362011

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The Ghost of Tradition by Kevin Walzer Pdf

Expansive poetry uses rhyme, meter, and narrative to make a poetic point; unlike much of 20th-century American poetry, which relies heavily on free verse and experimentation for poetic style and impact. Walzer, an associate editor at Cincinnati Poetry Review, believes that Expansive poets and their return to traditional forms have not been given their due in the current literary culture. He attempts to rectify this with a scholarly and detailed discourse on the movement's history and importance as well as some of its poets. Walzer's perspective is favorable but also fair. His critical study is needed if for no other reason than that it offers an informed opinion that opposes prevailing views. It should be noted that this work requires more than a technical appreciation of poetry?it demands an abiding love of its mysticism. --Library Journal.

Author : James Longenbach
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780195101782

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Modern Poetry After Modernism by James Longenbach Pdf

Reading a diverse range of poets - John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Robert Pinsky, and Richard Wilbur - Longenbach reveals that American poets since mid-century have not so much disowned their modernist past as extended elements of modernism that other readers have suppressed or neglected to see.

Author : Alan Gilbert
Publisher : Wesleyan
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-27
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015063361649

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Another Future by Alan Gilbert Pdf

What's next for contemporary poetry? How do we write and think about poetry and visual art in the wake of postmodernism? Questions like this are central to poetry and art, especially when taught within an academic context. Another Future is a collection of critical essays on contemporary poetry, art, culture, and politics that investigates the current state of these fields by bringing together writings on the work of a number of poets and visual artists. Reading the social poetically and poetry socially, Gilbert illuminates poetic and artistic practices in the present and creates a new discourse for thinking beyond postmodernism. Both meticulous and comprehensive, Another Future makes an important contribution to the critical discussion of contemporary poetry and cultural aesthetics. Essays cover authors, artists, and topics such as the Barbie Liberation Organization, Anselm Berrigan, Brenda Coultas, documentary aesthetics, Benjamin Friedlander, globalization, Andreas Gursky, Renee Gladman, Kevin Killian, David LaChapelle, Harryette Mullen, Mark Nowak, Keith Piper, pirate radio, "post-black" art, Martha Rosler, Edward Sanders, Andrew Schelling, Allan Sekula, September 11th, Prageeta Sharma, Roberto Tejada, Lorenzo Thomas, Anne Waldman, and the Zapatistas.

Author : James Longenbach
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-11-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195356359

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Modern Poetry after Modernism by James Longenbach Pdf

In this book, James Longenbach develops a fresh approach to major American poetry after modernism. Rethinking the influential "breakthrough" narrative, the oft-told story of postmodern poets throwing off their modernist shackles in the 1950s, Longenbach offers a more nuanced perspective. Reading a diverse range of poets--John Ashbery, Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, Jorie Graham, Richard Howard, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Robert Pinsky, and Richard Wilbur--Longenbach reveals that American poets since mid- century have not so much disowned their modernist past as extended elements of modernism that other readers have suppressed or neglected to see. In the process, Longenbach allows readers to experience the wide variety of poetries written in our time-- without asking us to choose between them.

Author : Paul Hoover
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393310906

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Postmodern American Poetry by Paul Hoover Pdf

A survey of major poets and movements of American postmodern poetry includes more than four hundred poems by 103 poets

Author : John A.F. Hopkins
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781527549104

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The Universal Deep Structure of Modern Poetry by John A.F. Hopkins Pdf

With something of a poetry renaissance currently under way worldwide, there is now, more than ever, a need for a solidly-based methodology for interpreting poems: something more empirical than traditional ‘lit-crit’ approaches, and something more linguistically-informed than the version of ‘postmodernism’ rampant in certain Anglophone universities. The latter approach, which tends to allow the individual reader to do what he/she likes with a poetic text, is inadequate to interpret modernist poetry, whose English-language precursors may be found in the late Romantics; its pioneers were already writing (in France) as early as 1840. What is so different about the modernists? Most importantly, their works are monumental, in that they are strongly resistant to deconstruction. Contributing to this resistance is the fact that they are built around two deep-level propositions, each of which generates a set of indirectly-signifying images, sharing the same internal structure, but having a different vocabulary. Thus, they do not signify according to linear narrative, but according to these propositions—and the relation between them—which may be reconstructed by a careful comparison of images on the textual surface. Every text—as subject-sign—refers to an intertextual object-sign, which is usually another poem, but may also be a film or other form of art. Mediating between these two signs is their reader-constructed interpretant, which completes the semiotic triad. As this book shows, the novelty of this sign is thrown into relief by the contrast it makes with a lexical counterpart from the reader’s experience, which differs from the interpretant in structure. The book’s inclusion of French and Japanese, as well as English poems, shows that deep-level signifying mechanisms may well be universal, with considerable research and pedagogical implications.

Author : Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 1501326880

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The Testimonies of Russian and American Postmodern Poetry by Albena Lutzkanova-Vassileva Pdf

"This book challenges the belief in the purely linguistic nature of contemporary poetry and offers an interpretation of late twentieth-century Russian poetry as a testimony to the unforeseen annulment of communist reality and its overnight displacement by a completely unfathomable post-totalitarian order. Albena Vassileva argues that, because of the sudden invalidation of a reality that had been largely seen as unattained and everlasting, this shift remained secluded from the mind and totally resistant to cognition, thus causing a collectively traumatic psychological experience. The book proceeds by inquiring into a school of contemporary American poetry that has been likewise read as cut off from reality. Executing a comparative analysis, Vassileva advances a new understanding of this poetry as a testimony to the overwhelming and traumatic impact of contemporary media, which have assailed the mind with far more signals than it can register, digest and furnish with semantic weight"--

Author : Albert Cook
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820451347

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Forces in Modern & Postmodern Poetry by Albert Cook Pdf

Forces in Modern and Postmodern Poetry examines the works of classic authors in the modern and postmodern literary tradition, including Stéphane Mallarmé, Wallace Stevens, Samuel Beckett, Gertrude Stein, Charles Olson, Paul Celan, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, and John Ashbery, all from a comparative perspective. The concepts, modern and postmodern, are not used to provide definitive answers but to raise questions concerning the status of representation, issues of the self, and the use of imagery and musical invention. The wide range of the study is matched by the richly detailed analysis of specific poetic texts from an author noted for the scope and acuity of his attention to modern poetry in all its varied forms.

Author : Mahmoud Sokar
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783346132536

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A Postmodern Reading of Visual Poetry by Mahmoud Sokar Pdf

Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2016 in the subject Literature - Comparative Literature, grade: 100, , course: MA, language: English, abstract: This study aims at clarifying and defining the development of visual poetry movement through the term, postmodernism. Moreover, it tries to focus on the major features of postmodernism applied in some modern visual poems written or designed by contemporary and modern visual poets. These features are iconoclasm, groundlessness, formlessness, populism, intertextuality (pastiche), hyper reality, and techno-culture. Then, it moves to give a detailed account of the features of post-postmodernism in the genre, especially in Fluxes visual poems which are also known as performance poems.

Author : Antony Easthope,John O. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015024790506

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Contemporary Poetry Meets Modern Theory by Antony Easthope,John O. Thompson Pdf

Author : Antony Rowland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108841979

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Metamodernism and Contemporary British Poetry by Antony Rowland Pdf

Introduction -- Contemporary British Poetry and Enigmaticalness -- Continuing 'Poetry Wars' in Twenty-First-Century British Poetry -- Committed and Autonomous Art -- Iconoclasm and Enigmatical Commitment -- The Double Consciousness of Modernism -- Conclusion.

Author : Joseph M. Conte
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501703232

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Unending Design by Joseph M. Conte Pdf

Drawing on the work of contemporary American poets from Ashbery to Zukofsky, Joseph M. Conte elaborates an innovative typology of postmodern poetic forms. In Conte's view, looking at recent poetry in terms of the complementary methods of seriality and proceduralism offers a rewarding alternative to the familiar analytic dichotomy of "open" and "closed" forms.