These essays share as their theme the reconsideration of the role of historical and cultural change in the evolution of 20th-century poetry and poetics. Perloff first looks at broad theoretical concerns - the evolution and contradictions of the term ""postmodernism""; the vexed relation of modernism to the primitivism ostensible inherent in it; the large-scale transformation of free verse; and the reception of poetry and poetics in the contemporary press and its cyberspace future. From this theoretical framework she then addresses individual cases - the difficult poetic language of Mina Loy; the relation of poetry and politics as exhibited by Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan; the mimetic nature of photography as understood by Roland Barthes and Christian Boltanski; the special accomplishments of John Cag's ""Mesostic"" art.
| ISBN: | 9780810115613 |
| Publication date: | 30th May 1998 |
| Author: | Marjorie Perloff |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 320 pages |
| Series: | Avant-Garde & Modernism Studies |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Literary studies: poetry and poets |