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Cargando... The Point Is To Change It: Poetry and Criticism in the Continuing Present (Modern & Contemporary Poetics)por Jerome McGann
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"For all of McGann's awe-inspiring ingenuity, linguistic dexterity, and vast scholarly resources, the determination to extend the reach of interpretation occasionally runs up against a tone of self-justification. ...Nevertheless, even in those terms, McGann's discourse is a brilliant and engaging feat of navigation between winning and losing, a linguistic and electronic critical regatta racing to the cybersea before some kind of unforeseen solidification overtakes the flow."
A preeminent critic maps the frontier of contemporary poetry. In this book, Jerome McGann argues that contemporary language-oriented writing implies a marked change in the way we think about our poetic tradition on one hand and in the future of criticism on the other. He focuses on Walter Benjamin and Gertrude Stein as important intellectual resources because both see the history of poetry as a crisis of the present rather than as a legacy of the past. The crisis appears as a poetic deficit in contemporary culture, where values of politics and morality are judged pri No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Google Books — Cargando... GénerosSistema Decimal Melvil (DDC)811.509112Literature English (North America) American poetry 20th CenturyClasificación de la Biblioteca del CongresoValoraciónPromedio: No hay valoraciones.¿Eres tú?Conviértete en un Autor de LibraryThing. |