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almahu_9949297079502882
Format:
1 online resource (320 p.) :
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15 halftones
ISBN:
9780226712772
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9783110754001
Content:
Esteemed literary critic Marjorie Perloff reconsiders the nature of the poetic, examining its visual, grammatical, and sound components. The "infrathin" was Marcel Duchamp's playful name for the most minute shade of difference: that between the report of a gunshot and the appearance of the bullet hole, or between two objects in a series made from the same mold. "Eat" is not the same thing as "ate." The poetic, Marjorie Perloff suggests, can best be understood as the language of infrathin. For in poetry, whether in verse or prose, words and phrases that are seemingly unrelated in ordinary discourse are realigned by means of sound, visual layout, etymology, grammar, and construction so as to "make it new." In her revisionist "micropoetics," Perloff draws primarily on major modernist poets from Stein and Yeats to Beckett, suggesting that the usual emphasis on what this or that poem is "about," does not do justice to its infrathin possibilities. From Goethe's eight-line "Wanderer's Night Song" to Eliot's Four Quartets, to the minimalist lyric of Rae Armantrout, Infrathin is designed to challenge our current habits of reading and to answer the central question: what is it that makes poetry poetry?
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Figures --
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Preface --
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On Scansion and Notation --
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Introduction. Toward an Infrathin Reading/Writing Practice --
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1 "A Rose Is a Rose Is a Rrose Sélavy" --
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2 Eliot's Auditory Imagination --
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3 Reading the Verses Backward --
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4 Word Frequencies and Zero Zones --
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5 "A Wave of Detours" --
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6 The Trembling of the Veil --
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7 From Beckett to Yeats --
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Acknowledgments --
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Notes --
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Index
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754001
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021 English, De Gruyter, 9783110754124
In:
EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110753899
In:
University of Chicago Complete eBook-Package 2021, De Gruyter, 9783110739190
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780226712772
