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Disjunctive Poetics - From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (Hardcover)
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Disjunctive Poetics - From Gertrude Stein and Louis Zukofsky to Susan Howe (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
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Disjunctive Poetics examines some of the most interesting and
experimental contemporary writers whose work forms a counterpoint
to the mainstream writing of our time. Peter Quartermain suggests
that the explosion of non-canonical modern writing is linked to the
severe political, social and economic dislocation of
non-English-speaking immigrants who, bringing alternative culture
with them as they passed through Ellis Island in their hundreds of
thousands at the turn of the century, found themselves uprooted
from their traditions and dissociated from their cultures. The line
of American poetry that runs from Gertrude Stein through Louis
Zukofsky and the Objectivists to the Language Writers, Quartermain
contends, is not the constructive but the deconstructive aspect,
which emphasises the materiality and ambiguity of the linguistic
medium and the arbitrariness and openness of the creative process.
Providing close reading of Gertrude Stein, Louis Zukofsky, Robert
Creeley, Basil Bunting, Guy Davenport, Robert Duncan and Susan
Howe, the book explains how these writers describe the modern
experience in a multicultural world by displacing commonly accepted
cultural icons and by loading their language with multiple
potential meanings.
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