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The Small Space of a Pause. Susan Howe's Poetry and the Space Between.
Elisabeth W. Joyce
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Description for The Small Space of a Pause. Susan Howe's Poetry and the Space Between.
Hardback. Num Pages: 297 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167 x 21. Weight in Grams: 576.
This book is about Susan Howe's poetry from the perspective of space. Howe reshapes cultural configurations of space through her drive to infiltrate interstitial areas of "third" spaces: the silences of history, the margins of the page, the placeless migrants, and the uncharted lands. Nuances, frontiers, thresholds, edges, fuzzinesses, ambiguities, pauses, singularities, margins: these are the spaces where her poetry occurs, places that lie between two states. Rather than absences, therefore, the space of this poetry is a place of being, of what Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari refer to as becoming. Third space is contested because it must also ... Read more
This book is about Susan Howe's poetry from the perspective of space. Howe reshapes cultural configurations of space through her drive to infiltrate interstitial areas of "third" spaces: the silences of history, the margins of the page, the placeless migrants, and the uncharted lands. Nuances, frontiers, thresholds, edges, fuzzinesses, ambiguities, pauses, singularities, margins: these are the spaces where her poetry occurs, places that lie between two states. Rather than absences, therefore, the space of this poetry is a place of being, of what Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari refer to as becoming. Third space is contested because it must also ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
297
Condition
New
Number of Pages
297
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611483499
SKU
V9781611483499
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About Elisabeth W. Joyce
Elisabeth W. Joyce is a professor at Edinboro University.
Reviews for The Small Space of a Pause. Susan Howe's Poetry and the Space Between.
Joyce (Edinboro U. of Pennsylvania) conducts readings of the American poet Susan Howe from the perspective of space. She argues that space shapes Howe's poetry both conceptually and visually and that 'Howe reshapes cultural configurations of space through her drive to infiltrate interstitial areas of third spaces: the silences of history, the margins of the page, the placeless migrants, and ... Read more