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Symposium of the Whole
Rothenberg, Diane; Rothenberg, Jerome
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Description for Symposium of the Whole
Paperback. In three ethnographic sections, this book demonstrates how various poetries are structured and composed, how they reflect meaning and worldview, and how they are performed in cultures where all art may be thought of as art-in-motion. Num Pages: 522 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSB; DSC; HBTB; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 270 x 36. Weight in Grams: 938.
Symposium of the Whole traces a discourse on poetry and culture that has profoundly influenced the art of our time, with precedents going back two centuries and more. Beginning with a reassertion of the complexity of poetry among peoples long labeled "primitive" and "savage," many recent poets have sought to base a new poetics over the fullest range of human cultures. The attempt to define an ethnopoetics has been significantly connected with the most experimental and future-directed side of Romantic and modern poetry, both in the Western world and, increasingly, outside it. As a visionary poetics and as a politics, ... Read more
Symposium of the Whole traces a discourse on poetry and culture that has profoundly influenced the art of our time, with precedents going back two centuries and more. Beginning with a reassertion of the complexity of poetry among peoples long labeled "primitive" and "savage," many recent poets have sought to base a new poetics over the fullest range of human cultures. The attempt to define an ethnopoetics has been significantly connected with the most experimental and future-directed side of Romantic and modern poetry, both in the Western world and, increasingly, outside it. As a visionary poetics and as a politics, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
522
Condition
New
Number of Pages
522
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520293113
SKU
V9780520293113
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About Rothenberg, Diane; Rothenberg, Jerome
Jerome Rothenberg is the author of over forty volumes of poetry and translation, and the editor of such ground-breaking anthologies as Technicians of the Sacred and Shaking the Pumpkin. He is Professor Emeritus of Visual Arts and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. Diane Rothenberg is an anthropologist with a concentration in social theory and ethno-history. She ... Read more
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