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Changing Subjects - Digressions in Modern American Poetry (Hardcover)
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Changing Subjects - Digressions in Modern American Poetry (Hardcover)
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Digression is widely considered a mark of disordered or evasive
discourse. Modern legal, philosophical, and political writing
largely disavows this trope, regarding it as a departure from the
model of rational exposition institutionalized under the
Enlightenment. And yet, as the rhetorical figure of digression has
grown increasingly marginalized within the decorum of public
discourse, it has come to occupy a central position in the private
discursive world of poetry. Changing Subjects outlines an anatomy
of 'the excursus' within twentieth-century American poetics; moving
from aesthetics to the archive to narratology to theories of
identity, this study considers the various spheres in which
American writers of the period revise prior models of purposeful
discourse by cultivating a poetics of digression in the modern
poem. The opening section considers the manner in which Wallace
Stevens employs digression within the ars poetica genre to
deconstruct aesthetic theory under High Modernism; the second
chapter examines Marianne Moore's use of the excursus to organize
archival knowledge in the Progressive poetry of instruction; the
third section turns to Lyn Hejinian's construction of a digressive
narratology intended to unsettle master-narratives of the Cold War
era; the fourth chapter treats digression as a strategy for
fashioning the self in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Frank O'Hara;
and the book concludes with a survey of "Elliptical" strategies
employed by a new generation of poets, writing in the wake of John
Ashbery's aleatory craft, who seek to extend the digressive project
of American poetry into the 21st Century.
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