Format:
XVI, 346 S.
ISBN:
0810117649
Series Statement:
Avant-garde & modernism studies
Content:
"In her seminal study, first published in 1981, Marjorie Perloff argues that the map of Modernist poetry needs to be redrawn to include a central tradition which cannot properly be situated within the Romantic-Symbolist tradition dominating the early twentieth century. She traces this tradition from its early "French connection" in the poetry of Rimbaud and Apollinaire as well as in Cubist, Dada, and early Surrealist painting; through its various manifestations in the work of Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, and Ezra Pound; to such postmodern "landscapes without depth" as the French/English language constructions of Samuel Beckett, the elusive dreamscapes of John Ashbery, and the performance works of David Antin and John Cage." "In the poetry of this "other tradition," ambiguity and complexity give way to inherent contradiction and undecidability, metaphor and symbol to metonymy and synecdoche, the well-wrought urn to what Ashbery calls "an open field of narrative possibilities," and the coherent structure of images to "mysteries of construction," nonsense, and free play."--BOOK JACKET.
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
,
Comparative Studies. Non-European Languages/Literatures
Keywords:
Französisch
;
Lyrik
;
Geschichte 1870-1980
;
Englisch
;
Geschichte 1900-1980
;
USA
;
Lyrik
;
Französisch
;
Geschichte 1870-1980
;
USA
;
Lyrik
;
Geschichte 1900-
;
Frankreich
;
Literatur
;
Geschichte 1900-
;
Poetik
;
Rimbaud, Arthur 1854-1891
;
Poetik
;
Geschichte 1900-
Author information:
Perloff, Marjorie 1931-2024
