Poetry on and off the Page - Essays for Emergent Occasions (Paperback, Bantam Mass Mar)

These essays share as their theme the reconsideration of the role of historical and cultural change in the evolution of 20th-century poetry and poetics. Perloff first looks at broad theoretical concerns - the evolution and contradictions of the term ""postmodernism""; the vexed relation of modernism to the primitivism ostensible inherent in it; the large-scale transformation of free verse; and the reception of poetry and poetics in the contemporary press and its cyberspace future. From this theoretical framework she then addresses individual cases - the difficult poetic language of Mina Loy; the relation of poetry and politics as exhibited by Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan; the mimetic nature of photography as understood by Roland Barthes and Christian Boltanski; the special accomplishments of John Cag's ""Mesostic"" art.

General

Imprint:	Northwestern University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies
Release date:	1998
First published:	May 1998
Authors:	Marjorie Perloff
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	320
Edition:	Bantam Mass Mar
ISBN-13:	978-0-8101-1561-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > From 1900
LSN:	0-8101-1561-1
Barcode:	9780810115613

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