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Poetry as Re-reading
Ming-Qian Ma
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Description for Poetry as Re-reading
Reading and rewriting our understanding of the poetics of modernism and postmodernism, this work identifies a counter-tradition in twentieth-century poetry. It traces a continuity of thought and practice through the different poetic work of objectivists Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, and John Cage. Series Editor(s): Perloff, Marjorie; Rumold, Rainer. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Reading and rewriting our understanding of the poetics of modernism and postmodernism, this truly revisionary work identifies a significant counter-tradition in twentieth-century poetry. Postmodernism, Ming-Qian Ma argues, does not so much follow from modernism as coexist with it, with postmodernists employing the anarchic poetics introduced by Gertrude Stein in countering the rationalist method of high modernists such as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.Grounded in a detailed and compelling account of the philosophy guiding such a project, Ma's book traces a continuity of thought and practice through the very different poetic work of objectivists Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, ... Read more
Reading and rewriting our understanding of the poetics of modernism and postmodernism, this truly revisionary work identifies a significant counter-tradition in twentieth-century poetry. Postmodernism, Ming-Qian Ma argues, does not so much follow from modernism as coexist with it, with postmodernists employing the anarchic poetics introduced by Gertrude Stein in countering the rationalist method of high modernists such as T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound.Grounded in a detailed and compelling account of the philosophy guiding such a project, Ma's book traces a continuity of thought and practice through the very different poetic work of objectivists Louis Zukofsky, George Oppen, Carl Rakosi, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
Avant-garde and Modernism Studies
Number of Pages
320
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810124837
SKU
V9780810124837
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About Ming-Qian Ma
Ming-Qian Ma is an assistant professor of English at the State University of New York in Buffalo.
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