Phenomenology and the Late Twentieth-Century American Long Poem reads major figures including Charles Olson, Lyn Hejinian, Nathaniel Mackey, Susan Howe and Rachel Blau DuPlessis within a new approach to the long poem tradition. Through a series of contextualised close readings, it explores the ways in which American poets developed their poetic forms by engaging with a variety of European phenomenologists, including Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Consolidating recent materials on the role of Continental Philosophy in American poetics, this book explores the theoretical and historical contexts in which avant-garde poets have developed radically new methods of making poems long. Matthew Carbery offers a timely commentary on a number of major works of American poetry whilst providing ground-breaking research into the wider philosophical context of late twentieth-century poetic experimentation.
ISBN: | 9783030050016 |
Publication date: | 16th January 2019 |
Author: | Matthew Carbery |
Publisher: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 235 pages |
Series: | Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics |
Genres: |
Literary studies: poetry and poets Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 Phenomenology and Existentialism |