The objectivist nexus : essays in cultural poetics / edited by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quartermain.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

DuPlessis, Rachel Blau.

Quartermain, Peter.

Series:

Modern and contemporary poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Social problems in literature.

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

Literature and society--History--20th century.

Literature and society.

Marginality, Social, in literature.

Objectivism (Philosophy).

Modernism (Literature).

Poetics.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 380 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [1999]

Summary:

Cultural Writing. New to SPD. "Objectivist" writers, conjoined through a variety of personal, ideological, and literary-historical links, have, from the late 1920s to the present, attracted emulation and suspicion. Representing a nonsymbolist, postimagistic poetics and characterized by a historical, realist, antimythological worldview, Objectivists have retained their outsider status. Despite such status, however, the formal, intellectual, ideological, and ethical concerns of the Objectivist nexus have increasingly influenced poetry and poetics in the United States.

Contents:

Introduction / Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quartermain

The objectivist tradition / Charles Altieri

A poetics of marginality and resistance: the objectivist poets in context / Burton Hatlen

Be aware of "the Medusa's glance": the objectivist lens and Carl Rakosi's poetics of strabismal seeing / Ming-Qian Ma

George Oppen's serial poems / Alan Golding

Communists and objectivists / Eric Homberger

Irrelevant objects: Basil Bunting's poetry of the 1930s / John Seed

Objectivists in the thirties: utopocalyptic moments / Michael Heller

Lorine Niedecker's "folk base" and her challenge to the American avant-garde / Peter Middleton

Tradition and modernity, Judaism and objectivism: the poetry of Charles Reznikoff / Norman Finkelstein

Reznikoff's nearness / Charles Bernstein

Of being ethical: reflections on George Oppen / Peter Nicholls

Reading Reznikoff: Zukofsky, Oppen, and Niedecker / Robert Franciosi

Zukofsky's list / Andrew Crozier

"And all now is war": George Oppen, Charles Olson, and the problem of literary generations / Stephen Fredman

Land's end / Yves di Manno

The transformations of objectivism: an afterword / Charles Altieri.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-359) and index.

ISBN:

0817309748

081730973X

OCLC:

40347551