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Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture: Series Number 163: Writing in Real Time: Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital
Paul Jaussen
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From Walt Whitman to the contemporary period, the long poem has been one of the more dynamic, intricate, and yet challenging literary practices of modernity. Addressing those challenges, Writing in Real Time combines systems theory, literary history, and recent debates in poetics to interpret a broad range of American long poems as emergent systems, capable of adaptation and transformation in response to environmental change. Due to these emergent properties, the long poem performs essential cultural work, offering a unique experience of history that remains valuable for our rapidly transforming digital age. Moving across a broad range of literary and theoretical ... Read more
From Walt Whitman to the contemporary period, the long poem has been one of the more dynamic, intricate, and yet challenging literary practices of modernity. Addressing those challenges, Writing in Real Time combines systems theory, literary history, and recent debates in poetics to interpret a broad range of American long poems as emergent systems, capable of adaptation and transformation in response to environmental change. Due to these emergent properties, the long poem performs essential cultural work, offering a unique experience of history that remains valuable for our rapidly transforming digital age. Moving across a broad range of literary and theoretical ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
236
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107195318
SKU
V9781107195318
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About Paul Jaussen
Paul Jaussen is an Assistant Professor of Literature at Lawrence Technological University in Southfield, Michigan. His research covers nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature, with a particular focus on poetics and literary theory. His essays and reviews have appeared in New Literary History, Contemporary Literature, the Journal of Modern Literature, William Carlos Williams Review, Jacket2, and The Volta.
Reviews for Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture: Series Number 163: Writing in Real Time: Emergent Poetics from Whitman to the Digital
'This extraordinary book shows us exactly how the dynamics of the long poem enable the form, in Pound's phrase, to 'include history.' Jaussen develops a suite of basic concepts that make possible revelatory readings of key works, and a new understanding of modern poetry's most ambitious project.' Michael Clune, Case Western Reserve University, Ohio, and author of Writing Against Time ... Read more