Description: Further DetailsTitle: Poetic MachinationsCondition: NewEAN: 9780231164306ISBN: 9780231164306Publisher: Columbia University PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/01/2015Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmAuthor: Michael GolstonLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic FormISBN-10: 0231164300Description: The shape, lineation, and prosody of postmodern poems are extravagantly inventive, imbuing both form and content with meaning. Through a survey of American poetry and poetics from the end of World War II to the present, Michael Golston traces the proliferation of these experiments to a growing fascination with allegory in philosophy, linguistics, critical theory, and aesthetics, introducing new strategies for reading American poetry while embedding its formal innovations within the history of intellectual thought. Beginning with Walter Benjamin's explicit understanding of Surrealism as an allegorical art, Golston defines a distinct engagement with allegory among philosophers, theorists, and critics from 1950 to today. Reading Fredric Jameson, Angus Fletcher, Roland Barthes, and Craig Owens, and working with the semiotics of Charles Sanders Pierce, Golston develops a theory of allegory he then applies to the poems of Louis Zukofsky and Lorine Niedecker, who, he argues, wrote in response to the Surrealists; the poems of John Ashbery and Clark Coolidge, who incorporated formal aspects of filmmaking and photography into their work; the groundbreaking configurations of P.Inman, Lyn Hejinian, Myung Mi Kim, and the Language poets; Susan Howe's "Pierce-Arrow," which he submits to semiotic analysis; and the innovations of Craig Dworkin and the conceptualists. Revitalizing what many consider to be a staid rhetorical trope, Golston positions allegory as a creative catalyst behind American poetry's postwar avant-garde achievements.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Literary CriticismRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Poetic Machinations
Title: Poetic Machinations
EAN: 9780231164306
ISBN: 9780231164306
Release Date: 09/01/2015
Release Year: 2015
Subtitle: Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic Form
ISBN-10: 0231164300
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: Poetic Machinations : Allegory, Surrealism, and Postmodern Poetic Form
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Subject: Modern / 20th Century, General, Poetry, American / General, Semiotics & Theory
Item Height: 0.1 in
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Poetry
Item Length: 0.9 in
Author: Michael Golston
Item Width: 0.6 in
Format: Hardcover
