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The Poetics of the Limit. Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry.
Tim Woods
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Paperback. Num Pages: 303 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
This book situates Louis Zukofsky's poetics (and the lineage of Objectivist poetics more broadly) within a set of ethical concerns in American poetic modernism. The book makes a strong case for perceiving Zukofsky as a missing key figure within this ethical matrix of modernism. Viewing Zukofsy's poetry through the lens of the theoretical work of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, Woods argues for an ethical genealogy of American poetics leading from Zukofsky through the contemporary school of LANGUAGE poetry. Woods brings together modernism and postmodernism, ethics and aesthetics, in interesting and innovative ways which shed new light on our understanding ... Read more
This book situates Louis Zukofsky's poetics (and the lineage of Objectivist poetics more broadly) within a set of ethical concerns in American poetic modernism. The book makes a strong case for perceiving Zukofsky as a missing key figure within this ethical matrix of modernism. Viewing Zukofsy's poetry through the lens of the theoretical work of Theodor Adorno and Emmanuel Levinas, Woods argues for an ethical genealogy of American poetics leading from Zukofsky through the contemporary school of LANGUAGE poetry. Woods brings together modernism and postmodernism, ethics and aesthetics, in interesting and innovative ways which shed new light on our understanding ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
303
Condition
New
Number of Pages
287
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349633920
SKU
V9781349633920
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About Tim Woods
TIM WOODS has taught at King Alfred's College, Winchester, and the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where he is currently senior lecturer in English and American Studies. He has co-edited 'I'm telling you stories': Jeanette Winterson and the Politics of Reading (Rodopi, 1998), Critical Ethics: Text, Theory and Responsibility (Macmillan, 1999), The Ethics in Literature (Macmillan, 2000), and authored Beginning Postmodernism ... Read more
Reviews for The Poetics of the Limit. Ethics and Politics in Modern and Contemporary American Poetry.
The Poetics of the Limit...does a stellar job of presenting Zukofsky's work as a living body of art in which the ethics, politics, art, and science of the century coalesce.' - Codrina Cozma, Journal of American Studies