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The Point is to Change it - Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present (Paperback)
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The Point is to Change it - Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present (Paperback)
Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics
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In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary
language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we
think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of
criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude
Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the
history of poetry as a crisis of the present rather than as a
legacy of the past. The crisis appears as a poetic deficit in
contemporary culture, where values of politics and morality are
judged prima facie more important than aesthetic values. McGann
argues for the fundamental relevance of the aesthetic dimension and
the contemporary relevance of cultural works of the past. McGann
moves through several broad categories in his examination of
contemporary poetry, including the ways in which poetry must be
abstract, change, and give pleasure. The author draws on sources
ranging from the poetry of Bruce Andrews and Robert Duncan to
Looney Tunes cartoons. The experimental move in contemporary
poetry, McGann contends, is an emergency signal for readers and
critics as much as it is for writers and poets, a signal that calls
us to rethink the aesthetics of criticism. The interpretation of
literary works has been dominated by enlightenment models - the
expository essay and monograph - for almost two hundred years. With
the emergence of new media, especially digital culture, the
limitations of those models have grown increasingly apparent. ""The
Point Is To Change It"" explores alternative critical methods and
provides a powerful call to reinvent our modes of investigation in
order to escape the limitations of our inherited academic models.
The goal of this process is to widen existing cracks or create new
ones because, as McGann points out via the lyrics of Leonard Cohen,
""That's how the light gets in.
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