Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005
Poetics & Polemics, 1980-2005

Author: Jerome Rothenberg

Publisher: Modern and Contemporary Poetic

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780817355074

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"Jerome Rothenberg's work spans a period of over forty years and nearly one hundred books, and though perhaps best known as a poet, his critical and theoretical contributions to the fields of innovative, experimental poetry have become equally important facets of his work. Rothenberg's earliest critical writings concerned themselves with ethnopoetics and the poetics of performance. In the last twenty years his critical thinking has evolved to encompass more explicitly issues of modernism, postmodernism, and the avant-garde, as well as meditations on the nature of the book and writing. This volume extends and elaborates all of those interests, allowing for the first time a comprehensive glimpse of the full trajectory of his thinking."--Pub. desc.

The Larger Conversation
The Larger Conversation

Author: Tim Lilburn

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 2017-03-24

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1772122998

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Philosophical commentaries on the difficult task of forming a deep, respectful relationship with the land.

Contemporary Poetry
Contemporary Poetry

Author: Nerys Williams

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2011-04-06

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 0748646035

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Discussing the work of more than 60 poets from the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and the Caribbean, from Sujata Bhatt to M. Philip NourbeSe and from John Ashbery to Eliot Weinberger, Nerys Williams guides students through the key ideas and movements in the study of poetry today. With reference to original manifestos and web-based experiments, as well as the role of information culture in shaping and distributing poetry globally this book engages with the full vitality of the contemporary poetry scene.Key Features* Wide topic range - from performance to politics, from lyric expression to ecopoetics and from multilingual poetries to electronic writing - enables provocative thematic links to be made * Discussion of global Englishes, dialects and idiolects aimed at those studying poetry on postcolonial literature and contemporary poetics courses* Contemporary relevance: relates poetry to reporting on global conflict, including the impact of the Iraq War* Student resources include a chronology, web resources, a glossary, questions for discussion and a guide to further reading

Contextual Practice
Contextual Practice

Author: Stephen Fredman

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0804763585

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Fredman makes the original argument that some of the most innovative works of poetry and art in the postwar period (1945–1970) engaged in a "contextual practice," a term that refers both to a way of making art characterized by assemblage and to a new relationship between art and life, an "erotic poetics."

Approaches to Teaching Pound's Poetry and Prose
Approaches to Teaching Pound's Poetry and Prose

Author: Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos

Publisher: Modern Language Association

Published: 2021-04-05

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1603294503

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Known for his maxim "Make it new," Ezra Pound played a principal role in shaping the modernist movement as a poet, translator, and literary critic. His works, with their complex structures and layered allusions, remain widely taught. Yet his known fascism, anti-Semitism, and misogyny raise issues about dangerous ideologies that influenced his work and that must be addressed in the classroom. The first section, "Materials," catalogs the print and digital editions of Pound's works, evaluates numerous secondary sources, and provides a history of Pound's critical contexts. The essays in the second section, "Approaches," offer strategies for guiding students toward a clearer understanding of Pound's difficult works and the context in which they were written.

Representing Auschwitz
Representing Auschwitz

Author: N. Chare

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-09-19

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1137297697

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This collection of essays by leading international scholars takes the Scrolls of Auschwitz as its starting point. These powerful hand-written testimonies, produced within Birkenau, seek to bear witness to mass murder from at its core. The highly literary accounts pose a fundamental challenge to the idea the Holocaust cannot be attested to.

Pitch of Poetry
Pitch of Poetry

Author: Charles Bernstein

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2016-03-21

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 022633208X

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Bernstein, a leading voice in American literary theory, writes an irreverent guide to modernist and contemporary poetics.

Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out
Nathaniel Mackey, Destination Out

Author: Jeanne Heuving

Publisher: University of Iowa Press

Published: 2021-06

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1609387589

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In this first book of essays devoted entirely to Nathaniel Mackey's work, prominent critics respond to a major oeuvre that is at once affirmative and utopic, negational and dystopic. Drawing on multiple genealogies and traditions, primarily from African and African diaspora histories and cultures, Mackey's work envisions cultural creation as cross-cultural, based in the damaging relationships of Africans brought against their will to the Americas and the resulting innovations of New World African literatures and music. Contributors: Maria Damon, Joseph Donahue, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Norman Finkelstein, Luke Harley, Paul Jaussen, Adalaide Morris, Fred Moten, Peter O'Leary, Anthony Reed

The Varieties of Joycean Experience
The Varieties of Joycean Experience

Author: Tim Conley

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2020-12-15

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1785274600

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The Varieties of Joycean Experience is a collection of ten essays that display the wide range and diversity of perspectives and critical approaches that can be drawn upon to enrich our readings of James Joyce’s works. With special attention to Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, these essays explore such problems as the difficulties these books pose to categories and summaries and our understanding of Joyce’s composition methods. The book explores Joyce’s ambiguities around death, scatology, and the weather to propose new understandings of these phenomena as key ways into Joyce’s works. The book concludes with an examination of the tricky problem: what makes an interpretation untenable, and why do Joyce’s works inspire far-fetched and even crackpot readings?

Imagining the Jewish God
Imagining the Jewish God

Author: Leonard Kaplan

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2016-09-09

Total Pages: 575

ISBN-13: 1498517501

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Jewish art has always been with us, but so has a broader canvas of Jewish imaginings: in thought, in emotion, in text, and in ritual practice. Imagining the Jewish God was there in the beginning, as it were, engraved and embedded in the ways Jews lived and responded to their God.This book attempts to give voice to these diverse imaginings of the Jewish God, and offers these collected essays and poems as a living text meant to provoke a substantive and nourishing dialogue. A responsive, living covenant lies at the heart of this book—a covenantal reciprocity that actively engages the dynamics of Jewish thinking and acting in dialogue with God. The contributors to this volume are committed to this form of textual reasoning, even as they all move us beyond the “text” as foundational for the imagined “people of the book.” That people, we submit, lives and breathes in and beyond the texts of poetry, narrative, sacred literature, film, and graphic mediums. We imagine the Jewish people, and the covenant they respond to, as provocative intimations of the divine. The essays in this volume seek to draw these vocal intimations out so that we can all hear their resonant call.