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Museum Mediations - Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry (Hardcover)
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Museum Mediations - Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry (Hardcover)
Series: Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
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This interdisciplinary study participates in the ongoing critical
conversation about postwar American poetry and visual culture,
while advancing that field into the arena of the museum. Turning to
contemporary poems about the visual arts that foreground and
interrogate a museum setting, the book demonstrates the particular
importance of the museum as a cultural site that is both
inspiration and provocation for poets. The study uniquely bridges
the "dual canon" in contemporary poetry (and calls the
lyric/avant-garde distinction into question) by analyzing
museum-sponsored anthologies as well as poems by John Ashbery,
Richard Howard, Kenneth Koch, Kathleen Fraser, Cole Swensen, Anne
Carson, and others. Through these case studies of poets with
diverse affiliations, the author shows that the boom in ekphrasis
in the past 20 years is not only an aesthetic but a critical
phenomenon, a way that poets have come to terms with the critical
dilemmas of our moment. Highlighting the importance of poets'
"peripheral vision"-awareness of the institutional conditions that
frame encounters with art-the author contend that a museum visit
becomes a forum for questioning oppositions that have preoccupied
literary criticism for the past 50 years: homage and innovation,
modernism and postmodernism, subjectivity and collectivity. The
study shows that ekphrasis becomes a strategy for negotiating these
impasses-a mode of political inquiry, a meditation on canonization,
a venue for comic appraisal of institutionalization, and a means of
"site-specific" feminist revision-in a vital synthesis of critique,
perspicacity, and pleasure.
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