Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. DuPlessis, Rachel Blau
2. Quartermain, Peter

Description

1. x, 380 p.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. Modern and contemporary poetics

Subject

1. American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
2. Social problems in literature
3. English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
4. Literature and society -- History -- 20th century
5. Marginality, Social, in literature
6. Objectivism (Philosophy)
7. Modernism (Literature)
8. Poetics

Contents

1. Introduction / Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quartermain -- The objectivist tradition / Charles Altieri -- A poetics of marginality and resistance : the objectivist poets in context / Burton Hatlen -- Be aware of "the Medusa's glance" : the objectivist lens and Carl Rakosi's poetics of strabismal seeing / Ming-Qian Ma -- George Oppen's serial poems / Alan Golding -- Communists and objectivists / Eric Homberger -- Irrelevant objects : Basil Bunting's poetry of the 1930s / John Seed -- Objectivists in the thirties : utopocalyptic moments / Michael Heller -- Lorine Niedecker's "folk base" and her challenge to the American avant-garde / Peter Middleton -- Tradition and modernity, Judaism and objectivism : the poetry of Charles Reznikoff / Norman Finkelstein -- Reznikoff's nearness / Charles Bernstein -- Of being ethical : reflections on George Oppen / Peter Nicholls -- Reading Reznikoff : Zukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker / Robert Franciosi -- Zukofsky's list / Andrew Crozier -- "And all now is war" : George Oppen, Charles Olson, and the problem of literary generations / Stephen Fredman -- Land's end / Yves di Manno -- The transformations of objectivism: an afterword / Charles Altieri.

Call number

1. JFE 99-11902

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-359) and index.

Title

1. The objectivist nexus : essays in cultural poetics / edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quartermain.

Imprint

1. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c1999.

Series

1. Modern and contemporary poetics

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-359) and index.

Added author

1. DuPlessis, Rachel Blau.
2. Quartermain, Peter.

LCCN

1. 98058047

ISBN

1. 0817309748 (alk. paper)
2. 081730973X (paper : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 99-11902