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The Point is to Change it. Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present.
Jerome J. McGann
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Paperback. Argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. This book focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present. Series Editor(s): Bernstein, Charles; Lazer, Hank. Series: Modern & Contemporary Poetics Series. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 228 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present rather than as a legacy of the past. The crisis appears as a poetic deficit in contemporary culture, where values of politics and morality are judged prima facie more important than aesthetic values. McGann argues for the fundamental relevance of ... Read more
In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present rather than as a legacy of the past. The crisis appears as a poetic deficit in contemporary culture, where values of politics and morality are judged prima facie more important than aesthetic values. McGann argues for the fundamental relevance of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Series
Modern & Contemporary Poetics
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Alabama, United States
ISBN
9780817354084
SKU
V9780817354084
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About Jerome J. McGann
Jerome McGann is the author or editor of over 30 books of scholarship and criticism, among them Algernon Charles Swinburne: Major Poems and Selected Prose, Byron and Romanticism, Radiant Textuality: Literary Studies after the World Wide Web, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Game that Must be Lost, and Black Riders: The Visible Language of Modernism.
Reviews for The Point is to Change it. Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present.
A very fine collection.... McGann's writing will help to re-situate the reading of contemporary experimental writing within a broader context that includes the writing and thinking of poets such as Blake, Byron, and Shelley. - Hank Lazer, author of What Is a Poet? and Days