From modernism to postmodernism : American poetry and theory in the twentieth century /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in American literature and culture ;
v. 149. |
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Modernism's new literalism
- Gertrude Stein for anyone
- Making the rose red: Stein, proper names, and the critique of indeterminacy
- Laura (Riding) Jackson and the New Criticism
- Modernism's old literalism: Pound, Williams, Zukofsky, and the objectivist critique of metaphor
- Authorial inattention: Donald Davidson's literalism, Jorie Graham's materialism, and cognitive science's embodied minds.
