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Paperback. "Fieldworks" offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 590.
Fieldworks offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site. Arguing that place-oriented inquiries allowed poets and artists to develop new, experimental models of historiography and ethnography, Lytle Shaw draws out the shifting terms of this practice from World War II to the present through a series of illuminating case studies. Beginning with the alternate national genealogies unearthed by William Carlos Williams in Paterson and Charles Olson in Gloucester, Shaw demonstrates how subsequent poets sought to ground such inquiries in concrete social formations - to in effect ... Read more
Fieldworks offers a historical account of the social, rhetorical, and material attempts to ground art and poetry in the physicality of a site. Arguing that place-oriented inquiries allowed poets and artists to develop new, experimental models of historiography and ethnography, Lytle Shaw draws out the shifting terms of this practice from World War II to the present through a series of illuminating case studies. Beginning with the alternate national genealogies unearthed by William Carlos Williams in Paterson and Charles Olson in Gloucester, Shaw demonstrates how subsequent poets sought to ground such inquiries in concrete social formations - to in effect ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817357320
SKU
V9780817357320
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About Lytle Shaw
Lytle Shaw is an associate professor of English at New York University. He is the author of Cable Factory 20, The Lobe, and Frank O'Hara: The Poetics of Coterie.
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