The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary HistoryLanguage writing, the most controversial avant-garde movement in contemporary American poetry, appeals strongly to writers and readers interested in the politics of postmodernism and in iconoclastic poetic form. Drawing on materials from popular culture, avoiding the standard stylistic indications of poetic lyricism, and using nonsequential sentences are some of the ways in which language writers make poetry a more open and participatory process for the readers. Reading this kind of writing, however, may not come easily in a culture where poetry is treated as property of a special class. It is this barrier that Bob Perelman seeks to break down in this fascinating and comprehensive account of the language writing movement. A leading language writer himself, Perelman offers insights into the history of the movement and discusses the political and theoretical implications of the writing. He provides detailed readings of work by Lyn Hejinian, Ron Silliman, and Charles Bernstein, among many others, and compares it to a wide range of other contemporary and modern American poetry. |
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... who anthologized it in From the Other Side of the Century : A New American Poetry 1960-90 . To Rod Smith , who published a version of “ Language Writing and Literary History ” in the Barrett Watten issue of Aerial . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... side by poetry as it is currently instituted and on the other by theory . Language writing contests the expressive ... sides in foregrounding writing as an active process . Rather than being a symptom of postmodernism , language writing ...
... side to such autonomy : language writers were often accused of being a clique , writing for , reviewing , and publishing each other . Such characterizations can easily be applied to the poetic mainstream , of course . If looked at in ...
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Contents
The Avantgarde Particulars | 38 |
The New Sentence in Theory | 59 |
Orthography and Community | 79 |
Bruce Andrews | 96 |
Eight An Alphabet of Literary History | 144 |
NOTES | 167 |
INDEX | 183 |
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The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History Bob Perelman Limited preview - 1996 |
The Marginalization of Poetry: Language Writing and Literary History Bob Perelman Limited preview - 1996 |