Poetry at Stake

Lyric Aesthetics and the Challenge of Technology
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-691-00417-4
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 427 g

Taking seriously Guillaume Apollinaire's wager that twentieth-century poets would one day "mechanize" poetry as modern industry has mechanized the world, Carrie Noland explores poetic attempts to redefine the relationship between subjective expression and mechanical reproduction, high art and the world of things. Noland builds upon close readings to construct a tradition of diverse lyricists--from Arthur Rimbaud, Blaise Cendrars, and René Char to contemporary performance artists Laurie Anderson and Patti Smith--allied in their concern with the nature of subjectivity in an age of mechanical reproduction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Noland, Carrie

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Abbreviations xi

Introduction 3

One Traffic in the Unknown: Rimbaud's Interpretive Communities, Market Competition, and the Poetics of Voyance 16

Two A Poetry of Attractions: Rimbaud's Machine and the Theatrical Feerie 37

Three Confessing Philosophy: Negative Dialectics and/as Lyric Poetry 60

Four Blaise Cendrars and the Heterogeneous Discourses of the Lyric Subject 89

Five High Decoration: Sonia Delaunay, Blaise Cendrars, and the Poem as Fashion Design 114

Six Messages personnels: Radio, Cryptography, and the Resistance Poetry of Rene Char 141

Seven Rimbaud and Patti Smith: The Discoveries of Modern Poetry and the Popular Music Industry 163

Eight Laurie Anderson: Confessions of a Cyborg 185

Coda 213

Notes 219

General Index 255

Index of Principal Primary Sources Cited 263