In "A Serpentine Gesture": John Ashbery's Poetry and Phenomenology
Elisabeth W. Joyce examines John Ashbery's poetry through the lens
of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's conception of phenomenology. For
Merleau-Ponty, perception is a process through which people reach
outside of themselves for sensory information, map that
experiential information against what they have previously
encountered and what is culturally inculcated in them, and
articulate shifts in their internal repositories through encounters
with new material. Joyce argues that this process reflects
Ashbery's classic statement of poetry being the "experience of
experience." Through incisive close readings of Ashbery's poems,
Joyce examines how he explores this process of continual
reverberation between what is sensed and what is considered about
that sensation and, ultimately, how he renders these perceptions
into the "serpentine gesture" of language.
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