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Elisabeth W. Joyce - The Small Space of a Pause. Susan Howe's Poetry and the Space Between.  - 9781611483499 - V9781611483499
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The Small Space of a Pause. Susan Howe's Poetry and the Space Between.

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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 call itself into question in reimagining itself; in questioning its condition and rethinking itself, it contradicts itself repeatedly, setting up the form of an ever-present yet ever-shifting paradox of self-presencing. This site is also, however, the place of no frames or boundaries, a place that is all margins and singularities, that site of displacement, where migration is eternal and violence is perennial. Nomadism becomes an emblem in Howe's poetry for the twentieth-century condition as it represents the continual movement through space of the body, that never-ending, always-perpetuated sense of loss of place, but that equally charged coming into being regardless of the space within which that loss/becoming occurs.

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 the uncharted lands.' This third space, it is suggested, is a means of overcoming binaries and undermining hegemonies and hierarchies.
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