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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Language Writing and Literary History Bob Perelman. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS In 1990 I left the Bay Area for a job at the University of Pennsylvania . This book reflects that move : my longstanding engagement with language writing will be evident ...
Language Writing and Literary History Bob Perelman. ONE The Marginalization of Poetry If poems are eternal occasions ... written in a world in which that line was heard , though they'd scarcely refer to it . Quoting or imitating another ...
Language Writing and Literary History Bob Perelman. since they identify themselves as poems through style and publication context , they become a marginal subset of poetry , in other words , doubly marginal . Now of course I'm slipping ...
Language Writing and Literary History Bob Perelman. that the author has shares in the power of the technocratic grid ... written in lines ? Doesn't this essentialize poetry in a big way ? Certainly some poetry is thoroughly opposed to ...
... writing processes of the masters : Gabler's Ulysses , where the drama of Joyce's writing mind becomes the shrine of a critical edition , the facsimile of Pound's editing - creation of what became Eliot's Waste Land ; the packets into ...
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 |