Book Description
A survey of major poets and movements of American postmodern poetry includes more than four hundred poems by 103 poets
Author : Paul Hoover
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 19,22 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780393310900
A survey of major poets and movements of American postmodern poetry includes more than four hundred poems by 103 poets
Author : D. Huntsperger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,23 MB
Release : 2010-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230106102
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.
Author : Paul Hoover
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0393341860
A new edition of this groundbreaking anthology revisits postmodernism as a twenty-first-century movement. Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology galvanized attention on its publication in 1994, making “the avant-garde accessible” (Chicago Tribune) and filling “an enormous gap in the publication annals of contemporary poetry” (Marjorie Perloff). Now, two decades later, Paul Hoover returns to suggest what postmodernism means in the twenty-first century. This revised and expanded edition features 114 poets, 557 poems, and 15 poetics essays, addressing important recent movements such as Newlipo, conceptual poetry, and Flarf. Bringing together foundational postmodern poets like Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, and Allen Ginsberg with new voices like Christian Bok, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Katie Degentesh, this edition of Postmodern American Poetry is the essential collection for a new generation of readers.
Author : Donald Allen
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 25,82 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780802150356
This anthology includes many of the major poets to have emerged and gained pre-eminence since World War II, and whose writing reflects not only the significant changes in this nation's postwar history, and the coming to grips with a nuclear age, but also an entirely new way of looking at and structuring reality. United by their "postmodernist" concerns with spontaneity, "instantism," formal and syntactic flexibility, and the revelation of both the creator and the process through the writing itself, these 38 poets represent very diverse strains of an essential American individualism. Included are many of the poets whose work first gained widespread national attention with the 1960 publication of The New American Poetry: Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, Paul Blackburn, LeRoi Jones (Amiri Baraka), Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, and others. Among the poets included here for the first time are Anne Waldman, Diane di Prima, Ed Sanders, Jerome Rothenberg, and James Koller. In addition to a new preface by Allen and Butterick, the book provides autobiographical notes of all the poets and listings of their major works.
Author : Robert Joseph Frank
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
Author : Paula Geyh
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780393316988
Collects works by sixty-eight authors, including William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Art Spiegelman, Lynda Barry, Bobbie Ann Mason, and Douglas Coupland
Author : Ann Keniston
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 28,68 MB
Release : 2006-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1135502722
Overheard Voices examines poetic address and in particular apostrophe (the address of absent or inanimate others) in the work of four post-World War II American poets, with a focus on loss, desire, figuration, audience, and subjectivity. By approaching these crucial issues from an unexpected angle--through a study of the seldom-examined lyric "you"--Overheard Voices offers new insight into both contemporary lyric and the lyric genre more generally. The book offers detailed readings of Sylvia Plath, James Merrill, Louise Glück, and Frank Bidart.
Author : Mutlu Konuk Blasing
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 28,83 MB
Release : 1995-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521496071
Approaching post-World War II poetry from a postmodern critical perspective, this study challenges the prevailing assumption that experimental forms signify political opposition while traditional forms are politically conservative. Such essentialist alignments of forms with extra-formal values, and the oppositional framework of innovation versus conservation that they yield, reflect modernist biases inappropriate for reading postwar poetry. Biasing defines postmodern poetry as a break with modernism's valorization of technique and its implicit collusion with technological progress. She shows that four major postwar poets - Frank O'Hara, Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery and James Merrill (two traditional and two experimental) - cannot be read as politically conservative because formally traditional or as culturally oppositional because formally experimental. All of these poets acknowledge that no one form is more natural than another, and no given form grants them a superior position for judging cultural and political arrangements. Their work plays an important cultural role precisely by revealing that meanings and values do not inhere in forms but are always and irreducibly rhetorical.
Author : Paul Hoover
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 13,30 MB
Release : 1999-03
Category :
ISBN : 9780393984552
Author : Amy Hungerford
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1400834910
How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a belief absent of doctrine--has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious value independent of meaning. Hungerford explores the work of major American writers, including Allen Ginsberg, Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Toni Morrison, and Marilynne Robinson, and links their unique visions to the religious worlds they touch. She illustrates how Ginsberg's chant-infused 1960s poetry echoes the tongue-speaking of Charismatic Christians, how DeLillo reimagines the novel and the Latin Mass, why McCarthy's prose imitates the Bible, and why Morrison's fiction needs the supernatural. Uncovering how literature and religion conceive of a world where religious belief can escape confrontations with other worldviews, Hungerford corrects recent efforts to discard the importance of belief in understanding religious life, and argues that belief in belief itself can transform secular reading and writing into a religious act. Honoring the ways in which people talk about and practice religion, Postmodern Belief highlights the claims of the religious imagination in twentieth-century American culture.