UID:
almafu_9959202393902883
Format:
1 online resource (221 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-4725-4276-2
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1-283-20733-8
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9786613207333
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1-4411-8002-8
Series Statement:
Continuum literary studies series
Content:
Poetry is composed of sensation: this Deleuze-Guattarian assertion is central to a Deleuzian poetics that provides a fruitful approach to the difficulties of innovative literature and poetry in particular. This book is a clear exposition of a Deleuzian approach to literature that treats the literary text, particularly the poem, as something that exists in its own right. As such poetry is presented as something that must be encountered, actualised and embodied by readers on its own terms, rather than providing access to something else that it 'represents'. Far from being a hermetic, 'ivory towe
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. 'Crowned anarchy': Deleuze's univocal concept of being and the simulacrum: non-representational modernism and poetic innovation 2. Sensation and a Deleuzian Aesthetics: reading innovative poetries 3. The significance of sensation: innovative poetry as social thought 4. The significance of sensation: the self 5. The significance of sensation: the composition and force of innovative poetic space 6. The significance of sensation: the politics of contemporary innovative poetry Conclusion BibliographyIndex
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Also issued in print
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8264-2424-4
Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9781472542762