Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 517 g
Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 227 mm, Gewicht: 517 g
Reihe: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies
ISBN: 978-0-8101-1561-3
Verlag: Northwestern University Press
These essays share as their theme the reconsideration of the role of historical and cultural change in the evolution of 20th-century poetry and poetics. Perloff first looks at broad theoretical concerns - the evolution and contradictions of the term ""postmodernism""; the vexed relation of modernism to the primitivism ostensible inherent in it; the large-scale transformation of free verse; and the reception of poetry and poetics in the contemporary press and its cyberspace future. From this theoretical framework she then addresses individual cases - the difficult poetic language of Mina Loy; the relation of poetry and politics as exhibited by Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan; the mimetic nature of photography as understood by Roland Barthes and Christian Boltanski; the special accomplishments of John Cag's ""Mesostic"" art.
