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On the outskirts of form

Davidson, Michael, 1944-

On the outskirts of form practicing cultural poetics / [electronic resource] : Michael Davidson. - Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2011. - 1 online resource (x, 329 p. :) ill. ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-313) and index.

A public language. On the outskirts of form : cosmopoetics in the shadow of NAFTA -- The dream of a public language : modernity, textuality, and the citizen subject -- Objectivist frames. Life by water : Lorine Niedecker and critical regionalism -- "Closed in glass" : Oppen's class spectacles -- Approaching the new American poetry. Archaeologist of morning : Charles Olson, Edward Dorn and historical method -- "The repeated insistence" : Creeley's rage -- A Cold War correspondence : gender trouble in the letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov -- Looking through lithium : James Schuyler as Jim the Jerk -- Ekphrasis and the New York School -- The pleasures of merely circulating : John Ashbery and the jargon of inauthenticity -- "Struck against parenthesis" : Shelley and postmodern romanticisms -- "Skewed by design" : from act to speech act in language writing -- Vertigo : thinking toward action in the poetry of George Oppen -- Afterword : impossible poetries.

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Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--21st century
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Poetry--History and criticism--Theory, etc.
Poetics.


Electronic books.

PN1055 / .D38 2011

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